I've worked for exactly two different firms in my work life. In both cases, they were excelent bosses (you know, the ones who care for and are an inspiration to their employees). I was once told that I "had no ambition" because I refused to search for a higher-paying job. My answer? "No, I have a DIFFERENT kind of ambition - not to work for assholes. And I've fullfilled it." Abel, Ramon, hats off to the two of you.
that's the kind of boss I aspire to be. The way I see it, you spend most of your waking hours at work, so as long as the work gets done, have as much fun as possible. I manage a commercial sales team, and lead the region in close rate and net profit. I like to think its because I have a team that looks forward to getting to work each day and puts in extra effort to keep it a nice place to work.
Working with two middle aged bosses they discussed my body and whether I "was good at sex", right there in front of a male customer. Then they asked me if I wanted to star in a home made porn film. I was 17/18. Male customer was so concerned he actually waited around the corner till he saw both of them leave and then came back in to give me advice to quit immediately, just lock the shop door and put the keys through the letter box. Gave me his name and address and told me if my unemployment claim was denied he would be a witness for me. One of my bosses was the town Mayor at the time. Yes I left and no my claim wasn't denied. This was back in the early 80s, so there wasn't anything I could other than leave.
Worked at a place near Melrose. Yeh, that's right, the famous Melrose place. The girl I worked with found a wallet in a phone booth. She called the owner. He was so grateful he offered her a job! She took it!
@@madoldbatwoman I always think there's more good people than bad, or we would've been gone eons ago. About 2/3 to 1/3, the same ratio of Angels who left heaven to follow Satan!
Here's a joke my Dad told me when I was about twelve: When the body was first being made all the parts wanted to be the boss. The eyes said, "We should be the boss because we find food and look out for danger." The hands said, "We should be the boss because we use tools and make clothing and shelter." The legs said, "We should be the boss because we carry the body everywhere it needs to go." The brain said, "I should be the boss because I think and make decisions." And, on and on it went, with all the parts bickering and arguing over who would be the boss. Finally, the asshole piped up and said, "I want to be the boss." The other body parts laughed and laughed and said, "Why should you be the boss? You're an asshole!" So the asshole stopped itself up. Soon the eyes were blurry and crossed, the hands trembled, the legs were weak, and the brain was feverish. The other body parts finally gave up and told the asshole he could be the boss. The moral of the story is: You don't have to be a brain to be the boss. Just an asshole.
id seen that on a poster when i was younger, lol just the other day, i told my wife this joke, and here it is! what a small world...lol have a great day!
This is actually only slightly different from the original, ancient version. It was just the stomach in that one. Completely different vibe of course but it’s amazing how far some fables come.
5:25 If you are in the USA, this is illegal. National Labor Relations Act is a federal law, it doesn’t vary by state. You are protected when you discuss work conditions with coworkers, including openly talking about your wages and benefits. There are a few exceptions, but for the vast majority of employees in the US, this is a protected right. Your boss tells you to stop talking about your pay so you can keep getting underpaid.
There is such a thing as "right to work" states. Basically, you can be fired for any reason, or no reason at all. "Insubordination" is a good one. "Not meeting company standards and expectations". Many hourly wage earners in the US barely make enough to meet living expenses (and some are paid so little, they qualify for food stamps). Even with a solid case you may not be able to afford lawyers to fight a big corporation that can drag out a case until you literally die of old age.
@@birdgirl2623 Even in "At will" states, firing someone for such an offense can get a business into major trouble and have massive fines levied against them. Especially when they document it like above
The original post is correct re Section 7 rights under the NLRA. Right to work means not being compelled to pay union dues. Has nothing to do with at-will. Even in at-will employment, these rights will apply.
Yes, but the company has money and lawyers, and you paying money to lose more money over your loss of money is... not a fight it's possible to win. And then they blackball you in the industry because why should we hire someone who sues over abuse when we can hire someone who doesn't?
To be honest, discussing a salary is really good way how to ruin a company. And I dont mean it just financially. But poison a collective. Everyone of us negotiate our contract. If you dont like the money, feel free to try it somewhere else.
worked for a family-owned construction firm once (wasnt one of the family who owned it) - one year a couple weeks before xmas, the boss comes round to tell us that NOT ONLY was the company unable to afford any xmas bonuses that year, BUT ALSO they were going to shut down over the holiday & lay everyone off (so not only would we not get any straight pay, but we'd lose any vacation pay that we hadnt used yet) - after we came back to work after Jan 1, the big boss was being a big jerk, slamming doors, yelling at everyone, that kind of thing, and finally the supervisor corralled his secretary: "why is Floyd so upset?" "he's mad because you guys didnt chip in to get him a xmas gift this year!" a lot of us bailed out soon after that, and someone had the last laugh by calling the feds & turning in the big boss for software piracy.
We work alone and one of the staff team is diabetic, so kept sweets in the desk drawer in case of hypos. Our delightful manager not only ate them and refused to replace them but said he'd do it again if we replaced them.
@Su-ri5ob isn't this some kind of intentional interruption of medical treatment or something? Medical treatment wouldn't make sense, but he has those literally for the specific intent to help him in case a certain medical problem occurs. I feel like it should be illegal to do that.
Working as a machinist in the 80s I arrived to work late one day. The boss asked me why I was late. I told him my clutch blew up on the way in and I had to hitch hike the rest of the way. He told me, "You should leave earlier so when little things like that happen I wouldn't be late!" Needless to say I quit soon after.
It's funny how your boss can take an entire day off because a few people who don't even know they exist have lost a sports game, but if a dear family member of yours suddenly falls seriously ill or even passes away, such as a father or a mother, someone who has taken care of you for decades, then you're just playing the victim and finding excuses not to work.
Which is why where I am on top of all the other leave we have that no boss would dream of trying to stop us using, we have several days a year bereavement leave for close family if we need it. I don't get these posts. They'd all be illegal here & laws are enforced (otherwise why have them?). I feel sorry for these people.
There's a reason that I told my children and grandchildren that unless you are the boss, you're working for an idiot. At a meeting once, the Plant Manager told us that we are all responsible for quality. I pointed out that only management has the authority to decide what quality is, and that we ship sub-standard parts every day on management's orders. "If I don't get to decide what quality is, and I don't get to decide what gets shipped," I told him, "don't tell me that I'm responsible for it." I walked out of the meeting at that point. BTW: I'm union, so the PM couldn't fire me for daring to point out his hypocrisy. However, he never brought the subject up again.
"Unless you are the boss, you are working for an idiot." I can't even express how true those words are. Thank you for taking the time to really educate the kids in your life
My daughter works for an airplane parts manufacturer, in trouble for selling refurbished parts as new. He said, "If the police come, don't let them in! They'll have to break down the door!"
@@phlushphish793 Your daughter's boss is a moron. Since it's an airplane parts manufacturer, if anyone in authority comes to the door, he won't be lucky enough for it to be the cops. Rather, it will be the FAA, with a U.S. attorney and the FBI in tow. Locking the door will only make a bad thing worse.
I certainly agree with that one. they told us the same thing in my union shop shipping cars, I had a line manager steamed at me for tagging quality issues. He went over each item I had put a blue dot on and told me to remove them as the average customer wouldn't see that!!
Worst job for me (years ago) was being a viticulture student with a training college. We got bussed out to vineyards each day to provide free labour for the wealthy owners. We were told it was illegal to pay us, as we were students. At the end of it, we were given 'certificates in viticulture". I applied for a job at one of the vineyards afterwards and was rejected on the grounds that I hadn't done any paid work in the industry. What a scam that was.
Wow. What country was that? Here in New Zealand you would be able to pursue a legal remedy. Not legal to make people work for free, used to be called slavery.
@@nikiTricoteuse That was Tasmania in the 90s. Government run course for people looking for work. So, I'm guessing, a quid-pro-quo between a political party and one of its donors.
@@DuckReach432 Ah. That makes sense. Govt logic being that as they were already "paying" you via a benefit no-one else needed to. Their arrogance is palpable. Pretty much guaranteed cronyism somewhere in there. I remember getting in an argument with some twat at the benefit office when l first came back from overseas and who wanted to send me on a course to learn how to apply for jobs. She took umbrage when l explained that l had applied for and successfully obtained many jobs in several countries as well as run a couple of my own companies over the course of my THIRTY year working life and that l saw zero benefit in attending such a course and, that something to upskill my computer skills would be far more use. Threatened to stop my benefit.
@@nikiTricoteuse I can understand some of these bureaucrats being short with people being rude to them. There's no excuse for the power-trip types who need to denigrate others for their own self-aggrandisement. If you don't want to serve the public, don't be a public servant.
I had a boss once who would berate us all the time and wanted to cut our vacation time. We unionised the place and when he saw he could no longer treat us badly, he quit.
Anecdotes besides - you DO realice that was historically the whole point of that "unions" thing, right? To protect workers from the employer's abuse in a time (XIX century) where such abuse was actually not just commonplace, but considered "normal" by whole sectors of society. We may have improved a lot, but every now and then it pays off to remember that!
@@LednacekZ no self respect just greedy jerk behavior , fortunately I've not had such experiences I've had friends that have had some small experiences but not this terrible .......
@@LednacekZ America has too few unions and too few regulations protecting workers. The reason the OP got in "trouble" for not using up their vacation? Because we have laws in Europe that enforce responsibility onto employers. I'm pretty sure that if someone repeatedly fails to use up their vacation in time, it would count as negligence by the employer to actually give them time to use up their vacation. Also, if you leave a company, even if they fire you, they need to pay you for all outstanding holidays and the company needs to keep that money in an extra, earmarked account that can't be used for anything else. So, if there's a lot of not taken holidays, the company has a lot of locked up cash that they could use otherwise. I once worked at a place that was tight on money and they made us all consume as much of our open holidays as possible so they could access that money.
As an American, you're moving up in the world if you can swing a lower-tier job with 10 days annual paid leave. And good luck using sick time without it counting against you.
I had a manager who was hanging on by a thread with the company. He hassled me when I got to work a few min late after visiting with my terminally ill father. Then he shows up at the funeral home during the wake! Asked me when I'll be in. It was on veterans day. On a Monday. My birthday was Thursday. I told him I'd see him next week! He was fired after we had to fill out a form about how we felt about the company & management.
If it's serious then absolutely. I've had a boss though that would post stuff like that as a joke and wait for our rebuttal posts. We all kept it above the belt, so to speak, and it made for a better work dynamic to be able to just vent about the little things in a humorous way. No one is perfect, bosses or employees.
Once had my Resources department tell me I didn’t need the day off to go to my fathers funeral because I worked nights. “Just go after work and you can still be on time for the shift afterwards!” Needless to say I made sure that didn’t happen.
I once applied at a company who expected me to take a portable phone home with me and, "...if it rings at 3 a.m., you get up & answer it!" I said, "So, if I do that, I guess I'm off the next day?" "Oh, no. You still have to show up for your shift like normal." Uh, no!
I worked for a boss much like these bosses and it lasted all of two hours. He screamed at me! I had a very good resume' and came with a LOT of work experience, more than that clown ever had and yet he felt a need to scream at me in less than two hours. I got up, left his office and he yelled, "I'm not finished with you" to which I replied, "Oh yes you are you sawed off sob - your lack of self-esteem has certainly caused you a lot of emotional problems and until you can learn to be a real boss, you'll never keep good employees". Cya.
Almost was what happened to me but I always ask friends that work at places I want to apply to what are the boss and job conditions are , saves moving from job to job ........
I had a boss like that. Threatened to fire me over a mistake I made the cost the co. $30. Took me a whole year to get out. 2nd to last day I read a fax that came over. His manager made a mistake that cost the co. $300,000! Gee, John, did you threaten to fire Walt, "...in a New York minute?"
Wow. All of them were bad but, that last one was very "special" I can pretty much guarantee that none of those things were ever said by the sign maker before they became a boss and, judging by the level of entitlement shown in the sign, l bet they were a nightmare employee.
@@dragonhorse6433 Yes. So? That changes nothing, they already know that. These comments wouldn't make sense the other way around, why are you assuming they think it's the other way around?
I worked for a guy who basically said this same thing to me, I told him there was a way he could have it and when he asked how I told him. You'll just have to work extra hard at becoming a good manager. And then I walked away.
On top rude or insane customer, and shitty pay. The thing is, management can fix both of those problems: pay people better and have a no tolerance policy for abuse. Done!
A place I use to work at called me wanting me to work the overnight shift that night. I was two states away, literally at a family member's funeral that he knew about... He got pissy when I told him it would take me from that moment to the beginning of the shift to get there and I was not leaving the funeral nor driving through two states to then work all night. He started to threaten me as I was hanging up on him.
I’m retired now, but some these triggered me. I was in the hospital with double pneumonia when the supervisor “ visited” me and wanted to know when I was returning to work.
I worked at a hospital for years. Started feeling pretty bad. Lots of weird symptoms - short of breath with very short walks, or minimal exertion, heart pounding in my ears at all times, lightheaded when I stood up, lots of leg swelling, and extreme fatigue ( I would even nod out if I sat or stood still for a moment). Every one passed this off as stress - my husband was having issues - so that made sense. Everyone’s solution was for me to rest - like I’m already sleeping 12 or 13 hours a day! Eventually I was terminated for poor performance. A few months later I was admitted to same hospital in heart failure, with severe and quite persistent arrhythmia. In ICU on several IV medications. Several procedures to fix arrhythmia over the next few months. Medication adjustments that required me to be monitored in the hospital. My coworkers were now taking care of me.
At 3:34, the “COFFEE IS FOR FULL TIME STAFF ONLY” is the one the got me. Seriously?!? Every business I’ve worked for or visited in my life had free, complimentary coffee for employees, visitors, guests, or whoever happened to be in the building and wanted coffee. This is incredibly petty.
@Koowluh Damn! I thought MY employer was cheap! (Well, they are!). When I worked for Transamerica, an Indian company took them over (yes, from India). The 1st thing they said, was, "these water stations are only for us. You can't use them. Only your own." They're incredibly racist! But, they did give us $1K every 6 months we didn't quit. Didn't get that outta the old guys!
I’ve worked at hospitals and nursing homes, on midnights, where coffee wasn’t always available. You’d have to spend half of your break time roaming halls to a break room (or even patient waiting area) to get coffee. Or there’d be coffee in the kitchen/break area but you couldn’t drink it at your work station .
The best thing to come out of Covid is how easy it is to just work somewhere else. Everyone is hiring. Maybe one day corporations might realize their employees are actual people, not just vehicles to make the CEO and share holders more money.
I remember a retail job where our dept (covered by 2 clerks) was on 2 floors. We always tried to have one person watching the register, but occasionally both of us were helping elsewhere and a customer would have to wait a few minutes to check out. The manager decided to install a desk bell. We tossed it in the trash. The next one was screwed to the counter. We opened it up and removed the little ringer on the inside. The last one was a different model that couldn't have the top removed. We filled it with super glue through the opening on the top. The next week the bell was gone. Funny how these things happen.
I've been retired since 2007. It's easy to see things haven't improved in the workplace. My advice, know your state work laws, don't hesitate to report the company to the DOL and be sure to have notes of dates/times/those involved to help prosecute the A-holes.
I'm too afraid to report any sort of mistreatment at work because I am afraid that there might be corrupt higher ups as well and that nothing will get resolved.
@@lostsilver5469 That's almost always the case. HR is there to protect the co., not you. I wouldn't say anything unless something so egregious happens that an attorney will take your case.
We were at DIsneyland and my wife's boss called and said he might need her after all so could you just stay in the hotel room for a couple of days? She told him no and gave notice when she got back. He must have been insane.
Been there, done that. I put in a request for a week's vacation 6 months in advance. Informed the boss that the family was going to be in the wilderness, and there would be no cell signal. I come back to work the next week, and my boss is all like, "Where were you!? I was trying to call you all week!"
I once had a boss who made a point of keeping the group for which I was the Task Leader under budget on a government contract to ensure the contract would always be renewed. We didn't mind too much, since the work was actually interesting... until we found out our main competitor, doing almost identical work for a different part of the agency on the other side of the building, was paying their staff actual market rate. Their contracts were also always renewed even though my group was the one that kept winning awards. After some serious lunchtime talks, I had my entire group use one lunch break to visit the boss' office at company HQ and explained to him very politely that if we didn't get pay parity, he'd lose the contract because none of us would continue working for the company. We all got 40% -- yes, *forty* percent - raises and oddly enough, the contract renewals continued unabated. :-)
5:30 - you are allowed to discuss wages per the National Labor Relations Act. Just FYI for anyone here not aware of that. I didn't know that until I was in my early 40's. Wish I had known earlier.
A company I worked for had the no salary discussion "rule", but of course it happens from time to time anyway, even by accident. It came to light at one point that several "new hires" were receiving higher salaries than the people that would be training them and many had worked there for 5 years or more. Of course this did not go over well. At a later point the wages were so repressed that a special adjustment of almost ten percent was made across the board. It, of course, helped but was still not enough to make up for the stagnant raised over the previous 15 years.
I got fired for discussing wages with co-workers. Specifically, asking if anyone had ever gotten a raise. I had been there 3 years, one guy had been there 11, nobody had ever gotten a raise. I was technically fired for "badmouthing the company". My badmouthing was telling the new hire, "They don't give raises here."
@@devilman3806 I am not a lawyer, but that sounds like it might fall under the Act. That was crappy. I am a transportation manager for my company and I cannot imagine firing someone over that. I don't even know how I would go about documenting it without lying or making myself look bad.
Most companies are not as blatantly stupid as the one in the video, stating the reason for discipline as talking about salary. Dealing with that would be as easy as photocopy it and mail it to state and federal labor boards. Then sit back and watch the carnage while people in suits show up and drag everyone involved over the coals.
Fifteen years after graduating university with a master's degree I was making (in today's dollar equivalent) $93,000 with full benefits. I then quit my job due to having to work for similar jerks as the bozos described in these emails. I started my own business and after a few years I was making $200,000 with only clients to answer to. To my former bosses (except one) I say to them 🖕
my company said we had to use an app on our phone i held up my ICE phone an Nokia 3310 said mine dont do apps or WAP but has worm on it, will the new phone that your going to get me be able to do apps? that weekend 25 people dug out old pre smart phones company said never mind
Just remembered another odd one...wife worked in a hospital and a fellow nurse had worked there 20 years and for her anniversary they gave her a gift certificate for a free cup of coffee...at the hospital cafeteria!!! Told her that was like getting a card saying "go to hell".
Whenever we had " we value you" (aka your hard work gave management more money) pizza, our boss would make sure nobody took more that 2 slices and she took the rest home. Pretty sure she was the one who ordered, probably got extra, using company money.
It's so funny how bosses of the lowest-paying, crappiest jobs in the world somehow think people will do everything they say instead of going anywhere else.
heard a guy say "these kids today are so lazy, they dont want to work" i pointed out that the question should be "why cant we get people to work FOR US"
Had a boss who was an absolutely incompetent jerk. Credit where it is due, what he was really good at was making others believe he was competent. He knows all the right phrases and was a smooth talker. That impression lasted about 5 minutes once you actually started working with him. Took all the praise for things that went well, took credit for work that others did and had zero issues throwing team members under the bus to make himself look better. Also tried to play us against each other. (BIG mistake #1 because we are a very tight-knit team that has been working together for many years) Tried to leave as few paper trails as possible, so somehow we managed to have at least two ppl around when he came in. Also made a couple VERY inappropriate remarks about female colleagues to some of us, when nobody else was around. After the second person from our team handed in their resignation explicitly stating they were not willing to work anymore under his lead, alarm bells started ringing at HR. He was fired within hours of the second person leaving the premises. They had again spilled the beans about his conduct, and hinted that if this person remained in that post for longer, there was a real chance the entire team might end up quitting. They let it slip that two of us were already looking at job openings and one actually had an offer to work somewhere else and had asked to sleep on it. We were running at 120% capacity plus overtime because we had to pick up the slack from the two people who had left. We were barely hanging on. Meanwhile, Mr Incompetent loved to hold meetings. As many meetings as possible. He plastered us with completely pointless and idiotic meetings until we could not get any work done and started missing deadlines (which then of course was „our“ fault). Even when I told him point blank that an important project will not get done if I have to join the meeting right away, he insisted „No, I really need you to be there…“ Needless to say, this was one more of those meetings where you still have no clue why you are there 10 minutes in except to indulge someone who loves to hear himself talk. Wasted time all around, and we caught flak for missing a deadline. Thankfully the entire company had our backs because some other department heads had caught on to this dude’s complete lack of competence. This made the rounds pretty quickly. Wherever possible we tried to get things done with other departments without involving him. Said manager lasted about a year and made two very competent and experienced colleagues quit out of sheer frustration, one of whom had been with us for almost a decade. This idiot manager’s termination came like a bolt from the blue for him and he was visibly shocked. He was completely oblivious to the fact that the writing had been on the wall for him for several weeks. He was a marked man at that point and pretty much everybody else knew what was going to happen but not when. We later learned that he was moaning about how he was a victim of an illoyal team that had conspired against him. Which was not entirely incorrect, to be honest. But then, loyalty and respect have to be earned. We were cleaning up the damage he had caused for several months. His email inbox contained some pretty major landmines that would really have gotten a whole lot of people into a heap of trouble and cost the company a fortune.
You were lucky he wasn’t good at schmoozing the other managers and higher-ups. Plenty of these narcissistic holes have the backing of leadership because they know how to grease the skids with those higher up.
0:33 In Germany your boss will get mad if you don't take your vacation days, because they will get problems with the unions. By law you are entitled to two weeks of continuous leave and the total leave by law is 20 working days for a 5 day work week or 24 days for a 6 day work week. However, in most companies there are 30 working days of vacation. In addition, if you are severely disabled by more than 50 degrees, you are entitled to another 5 days in case of a 5-day week. And these days do not include sick days. On the contrary, in the case of illness on vacation you get the vacation credited again, because vacation is for recreation and illness is not recreation. Sick leave is paid for 6 weeks by your boss, after that about 60% of your normal brutto income for a year by your insurance company without the need to pay tax or insurance with that money. (In Germany you are paid a netto income by your employer, no saving for the IRS at the end of the year. Netto is your brutto minus taxes and insurances (health and employment)).
I had some pretty awful bosses. The old narcissistic lady married with a younger guy, who was a painter in her younger years, and she hired me to take care of her cottage. I was alone to clean, change the bedsheets, do the laundry, serve the clients, prepare the breakfasts, it was insanely exhausting and she was a horrible person. I also worked in a vineyard few years in a row, the boss was a raging alcoholic and a violent psycho. His wife was probably cheating on him with the young male employees. I also had a summer job once where we had to pick corn in the fields, the heat was unbearable and our manager didn't even brought water to us, as it's usually done in the agricultural jobs. He was also a huge AH. Tell me about awful bosses lol
Agri jobs are SUPPOSED TO PROVIDE: shade (breaks and if someone goes down for sunstroke), potable water, access to sanitation facilities (porta johns that are actually useable) and hand washing facilities. As well as breaks and mealtimes. Often abused. Document THEN call it in.
@veruschkadahmer - I wouldn't boink him, so he kept writing me up with (lies) to try to get me fired. I moved to a different department with a different supervisor. Apparently they were all part of the "good ol boys" club. The different supervisor put me in the dirtiest crappy jobs he had. Next department, same thing. Even co-workers asked what I had done to p them off. Couple months later I quit. As far as the first supervisor, I shouldda told his wife about his girlfriend. Yeah, a wife and a girlfriend and hitting on me. What a douche canoe.
😑😑😑😑😑 *An old boss obviously didn't want us to take time off at the same time. So we took turn. But then she ranted off about how come there's always one person taking time off each month. We were a team of 12...*
I'm an Aussie woman. work in logistics as a forklift operator for a large contract wine bottling company. we get 10 paid sick days a year. we get 4 weeks paid annual leave a year. plus one paid RDO (rostered day off ) per month...you can let them build up though, and cash them out if you want instead of taking them. our uniforms, and all safety gear, e.g. boots, prescription safety glasses, hearing protection, wet weather gear for working outside if we need it, is all supplied at no cost to us. we also get 3 days paid carer leave if a family member is sick. and 3 days paid bereavement leave in the case of a death in the family. if you have a serious illness, or injury that didnt happen at work, that means you wont be back to work for a long time, once you have used up 20 days of sick leave, or it runs out, income protection kicks in and pays 90% of your wages for up to 2 years if need be. we used to get 12 dozen bottles of really nice wine per year for free as well. that changed recently due to company restructuring, and in place of that, we now get a total of $700-00 of vouchers a year to use at either a bottle shop chain (liquor store) or at a local supermarket/department store. plus an extra $50 gift card at Christmas to use at another shopping centre. its not a perfect place to work at. but comparing it to all the stories I see in this video it makes it sound like paradise. I feel really sorry for all of those that shared their stories. you deserve better than that.
2:36 In the Netherlands a whole mall was to be renovated. On the square in the middle about fifty workmen stood ready to start when a man found a nest in the tree. It seemed to be bird eggs that are pretty rare. They had to wait a month before they could continue.
I once had a boss that asked me to work at little faster. It was my first month of the job, and I was still getting used to the procedures and what not. I admit I’m not the fastest employee, but I’m not as slow as a turtle either. I told that he could have me work fast and have everything look terrible, or he could let me work at my own pace and everything would be neat and organized. He never brought it up again.
Sounds fairly reasonable. He expresses his wishes, you explain your "limitations" and he gives you space to better achieve the goals in your way. I bet you did get faster, as experience grew.
your in luck that he didnt brought it up anymore, i was working for a grocery store on a test basis (meaning work a month without contract to see if i can fit in or not, this usualy ends up with a full contract, or at least a Month pay afterwards for the amount of work you put in) however i was told i worked slow and should be faster (first week) i also asked for a Day off because i had a massive Flu attack and couldnt work on the weekend, (third week) after the last day of the month management told me i wouldnt fit in and told me that i better not work there, afterwards they gave me a can of coke and a bag of crisps and told me where the door was, now dont get me wrong i know i can be slow at work, and i actually get payed money from the state because of a mental condition, and in our country we have a system that allows company's to hire people like me for half of the Minimum wages, meaning the company pays half and the state pays the rest, meaning even if i worked slower they would still get a worker that gets payed less and works just as much as everyone else, but just at a slower pace, this MoFo just figured hed get a free worker for a month and dumped me afterwards not even deigning to pay me for Work due owed, it was stores like those that basicly turned me away from payed work, and started looking for a simple non payed job like working with Podiums and music clubs (doing all kinds of gopher work or security for the Child party's (disco for the young teens meaning between 14-17 those need a form of security too, even if its only to keep the drunk teens and adults out of the building)
I worked at a major grocery chain and the boss was all of 5'3" tall....the same height as myself but being male and short he suffered from a HUGE Napoleon complex. Company policy was to acknowledge people no matter who it was if they were within 4 feet of you at anytime. When I spoke to the butcher ( I was in produce) he came storming out of his office and dressed us down. He'd been watching on CCTV. It got to the point where myself and the butcher only were 3xpected to remain mute for 8 hours. When we complied, he got upset, wrote us up, deducted hours, all kinds of petty punative crap. I wasn't having any of it, I know my rights. So, some e mails to his boss and lightly veiled threats of going to the media had him screeching how nobody respected him. He was right, we respected ourselves. More than half the staff walked out en masse. His profits dropped and corporate shows up a month later to get to the bottom of flagging profits. Suffice to say, he's a pump jockey now at the gas station next door. Threats of lawsuits and investigations from the Ministry of Labour was enough to get the higher ups to take action but without myself and the butcher starting the ball rolling, he'd still be like Hitler in his little fiefdom making school girls cry when they spoke without asking.
I worked for a guy like that. Also worked for a woman who was even worse in the same store. They both eventually got fired. Took me a long time to realize it wasn't worth it to stick with a job like that.
I had a couple of guys make some very racist jokes to one of my darker skinned employees. I told them to get out. They refused. I GENTLY ESCORTED them out. The entire FULL restaurant clapped. Middle of nowhere Wisconsin. That is how normal people deal with racism in the real world.
I had to put up with that crap for 40 some years and when I finally retired (they think they forced me out but I was ready to quit) it was like winning the Lotto!
This sadly is mostly an American problem. These stories should be rare but they are actually the NORM. I would say a good 40% or more are court room worthy, but people are too scared/tired to do anything about it. My last boss forced me to take an hour lunch and docked me an hours pay but I still had to work 30 minutes of my hour lunch. Then when I was a few minutes late he said I was stealing time. Literally was about to punch him in the face because he couldn't understand the irony (and that it was illegal what he was doing). I'm honestly shocked America hasn't imploded yet. American companies are the single reason unions were invented to try and prevent exploitation but then the unions began exploiting. You leave America and people will get into trouble for NOT taking vacation or working more than 8 hours a day. People ask me why I work so hard on my online business and not make as much. They say just get a job and I usually scream NO. I don't want to go to jail. If I have to work for another psycho narc that has NO IDEA how to run a business one more time I will end up in prison for assault. So I will happily sell random crap online. I don't care how much money I make as long as it allows me to keep my sanity.
I worked for a restaurant that wanted a 19 yr old to come back to work after she said her Mother (who she lives with) had Covid. 'if you dont have symptoms you can still work as long as you haven't tested positive.' I quit.
I worked for a place that deducted $5 a week, if you preferred to wear jeans, instead of slacks. We were told the funds went towards our "Christmas" party. Keep in mind..$5 a week x 52 weeks is $260 from each employee.... Christmas came around, and our "party" consisted of a subway sandwich, and a Coke, distributed to us at our desk, which we were then only allowed to eat during our regular 15 minute break, in the breakroom. Needless to say, their turnover rate was ridiculous. Never could see how they can't understand that loyalty goes both directions. If you shit on people, they shit on you.
@@minavanderleest9493 Left there in '04. Found out they went out of business, a few years ago. No big loss. We all have those kinds of people, in our past. Best thing we can do is remember them, and learn to avoid them, in the future, and be better to each other, than that.
If you are ever written up for discussing pay and have a form like that, you have a wonderful settlement from the company for a violation of worker's rights by the way. The right to discuss wages is federally protected.
My last job, i woke up one day not feeling my legs. I called in, went to hospital asap. My doctor made all kinds of appointments for specialists to run tests to try to find out what the problem was. I kept in contact with my boss letting them know about all of my appointments, still willing to work if i could sit in a chair at the register. She texted me back, saying, "you have a lot going on right now, should i just term you?" and she eventually did. :/
The clip at 6:15 - if I had been the manager, I'd also have guaranteed the customers wouldn't be served by a person of colour...then I'd have just left them sitting there with nobody serving them.
And I would have stated to the couple:I will assure you that you will never be waited on by a "colored"person as you are now banned from this Olive Garden.
5:27 lots of companies in the USA tell you you can not discuss wage with other employees, it is left over from a fear of staff unionising, HOWEVER it is a protected form of speech in the US and even if it is mentioned in a staff handbook, or a contract it is still protected and it is actually unlawful for a company to forbid it.... as such getting a warning or anything more serious from a company for discussing wages/salary is actually illegal. so the poster should keep that as evidence.
I worked for a big company that said explicitly in their employee handbook that you could be fired if you did not take your designated breaks. But when they were busy (because they deliberately understaffed to save money), they refused to let me leave my station even for a few minutes of your designated break time to go to the restroom. Then at the end of the shift, they would tell you that because you missed your break or breaks, you can sit in the break room for whatever time you didn't get to take before! In the state I work, there is NO law that says the company has to give you even an unpaid lunch break, much less any on clock breaks. The company I worked for has been sued over labor practices, so they gave lip service to changes. Since some states do have mandatory laws for things like breaks, working off the clock, etc., as a multi-national store, it was easier just to put the same rules for every location. I had manageable disabilities before, but working conditions broke me both mentally and physically. (And yes, I quit, but I should have quit sooner).
Can relate to the first one. I was told by my then boss to stop being so upset after three deaths in the family in less than a month. I ripped her a new one. And as for that sign with the bottom right corner saying gladly accept a pay cut, that's just plain dumb. When another employer slugged me with a 10% pay cut without warning... well, I still don't think they realised why I quit.
Not the boss, but the foreman on a job who was the boss's brother. This was an electrical contractor I worked for. Not as an electrician, but a general laborer. I'm fairly small and have issues with my shoulders, and had recently dislocated one. The boss calls an tells me that another site needs help with easy things like setting up spools for wire-pulls and laying out electrical sockets near their wall boxes etc. He says it's easy stuff, and it shouldn't bother my shoulders. I told him to please make sure that the foreman understands that I can not be lifting light fixtures over my head or carrying 20 ft sections of 5-inch conduit, and stuff like that. He assures me that he has already spoken to the foreman, and that there were already a few "strapping young guys" on the job who are doing the heavy lifting stuff. I get there and this foreman immediately points to a stack of 2-ftX4-ft florescent light fixtures, and says those need carried to the building and put in. Well I did try. After about 5 of them, my bad shoulder popped out again. Meanwhile the young guys (two of whom were built like football players) are sitting on the floor installing outlets or telecom/ethernet ports. I was the only one lifting 60 pound light fixtures over my head and installing them into drop-ceiling grid with hardly any clearance above to angle them in to place. So it was a fight to wedge each one in and get it dropped into the grid-rails. I went to the foreman and asked him to switch me out with one of those young guys, and mentioned that the big boss himself assured me that I wouldn't be doing any overhead or heavy lifting. The foreman flat out refused and said "Get back to work." I'm back on the 10 ft ladder struggling to get this fixture into its slot, 12 feet above the floor. My shoulder pops again with sharp pain and I drop the damn thing. It's totally fucked. One of the young guys offers to trade me jobs and the foreman comes in having a fit saying "NO! You do the what you were doing!" I tell him that I can't be lifting these up like this. or more are going to get ruined. Still having fits, he goes on about "If you can't do the job you were assigned and paid to do, then get off my site!" I told him that I was assigned to do exactly what the younger and physically fit, strong guys were doing. NOT to be the heavy lifting grunt.. He ran me off the site and later got a call from the boss, reaming him out. It was a common thing for this company to have the older and smaller workers do the heavy lifting while the young guys (Who got paid more than double, mind you) just did the light work. Once, a 65 year old guy with a bad leg and I were carrying 2, 20 ft sections of 5-inch heavy-wall pvc conduit to lay it out for placement into a trench. We were supposed to have help from the "electrician" (the young, overpaid guy). Him and I are slogging these things through mud and and having to climb over the piles of dirt as well. We're covered in mud and it's clinging to our (required) steel-toe boots. We are piling them beside the open trench as we were told. We get about 10 of these things sitting there with no help in sight. So we head off to get two more. Mid you, we're carrying these about 250 yards from the lot, to the trench, around a building. As we get around a corner, out of the shadow of the building and into the sunlight, I saw our "help" chilling in the dry grass, on a large piece of cardboard box that he had carried there. He's in his clean American Eagle jeans and spotless white Ralph Lauren shirt and white Nike shoes, an Arizona tea sitting on the grass beside him, he's spinning his Raybans in his hand, and occasionally flicking the screen of his Apple-phone. I asked him if he was going to help carry these things. He said "Nah, don't wanna get my jeans dirty. Hey, can you take those two on up to the head of the trench? The grass is still wet over there, and I have my good shoes on." So I told the guy with me, "Sam, Drop these motherfuckers right here! We're taking a break!" I turned to Mr. Priss, and told him "Here's your conduit. We carried them to you, You're the "Electrician". You install them! By the way, You are supposed to have steel-toes, work clothes and a hardhat. Not Nikes and 90 dollar nut-huggers!" Sam & I walked off and went had a smoke & coffee break. This time the boss took the side of the "electrician". But Sam "Mysteriously" got a call from his elderly mother and had to go.. Guess who I rode to work with.... Sam. He was my ride, since my house was on his way to & from the site. I had to go too. Mr. Priss had to get his clothes dirty, and installed the conduit in the muddy trench himself. As was his job to do, anyway. He also got wrote up for not having proper work clothes and boots. Edit for fixing whatever typos I saw only after hitting the "Comment" button. You know, Typos are only noticed after submitting the comment...
"typos are only noticed after submitting the comment" Indeed. I've published a few books on Amazon, and the last typo always sits in the middle of a Look-Inside screen, squatting like an ugly toad and laughing at you. So I understand. :)
@8:16 I worked for a company that would immediately have you collect any personal items, escort you to your auto, and be witnessed off the lot if you gave 2 weeks notice. They would pay you for doing nothing for two weeks. It went into effect after six months perfect attendance. It was part of the hire in agreement.
A disgruntled employee can do a lot of internal damage in those two weeks. I saw it once where I worked. Files deleted/overwritten, settings changed, certain papers lost or shredded. I could understand the above in light of that.
My last boss was physically, verbally, and emotionally abusive. Becoming disabled a few months after I quit was the best thing that ever happened to me. Which says a lot about work in the USA.
7:20 no doubt the boss was a jerk...but a lot of places have had to implement a strict "no giving expired food away" due to greedy people who eat an item given freely (or taken from dumpster) and then sue for it "making them sick". The companies won't risk bad publicity but will pay off then enforce new rules to avoid losing business. Always a few rotten apples to spoil the whole barrel.
A previous coworker used to work at a small pizza place, and every few hours, he’d have to throw away any pizza left on the warming table, as per state law. He knew there were a bunch of homeless folks that were unable to find jobs, even though they tried! Technically, he wasn’t allowed to simply give them the old pizza. But my dude was crafty! He’d carefully wrap the slices and layer them in the bag, and then set that on top of the trash bin, then go inside like he forgot something. The homeless got the pizza, and he never got in trouble. …I wonder how he’s doing now
That excuse is a complete fabrication of the companies. Look up "bill emerson good samaritan food donation act", it protects good-faith donors from suit. As to the actual reason they don't want to make donations that they're hiding behind this lie? I don't know, but I suspect it has to do with taxes related to inventory losses. Also when individual franchisees do it the reason could be anything from malicious cruelty to ignorance of the legal protections afforded to donors.
So many companies don't give a Christmas bonus that I've always been in appreciative. That is, until I worked for a small company and we got two $10 off coupons for a restaurant chain, that the owner got for free.
Most of my jobs have been pretty good, but there was one about 20 years ago... When I started working there, I was 30th in terms of senority. When I got caught up in the quarterly round of layoffs, I was _6th_. Three or four people quit, but in 18th months, they'd laid off 21 people in a 30 person company and had hired replacements. My personal favorite was the guy who got let go because "he closed the blinds on his window in the wrong direction" The boss had about four "good" employees, who could blame literally anything on one of the "bad" employees, and the boss would blindly accept what he was told. In my case, I came back from vacation and immediately got called into the office to be told I was being written up. For something that happened while I was gone. With a client that I'd never had any dealings with. When I explained that, I was told that my biggest problem was that I "refused to take criticism". He didn't much like it when in the exit interview when I was being fired, I told him that I'd had exactly two good days working for his company-the day he hired me, and the day he fired me.
I worked for a “State Government Corporation,” they didn’t pay overtime, only Comp. Time. When we went on vacation or out sick, which was rare. We were paid first out of Comp. Time. Even if we were over the maximum limit on accrued on our Vacation or Sick pay, and had to forfeit, anymore of this benefit. So we were basically working overtime for free.
As long as you keep working for bosses like this, especially if you know about, is sending the message that "this behavior" is ok. As with every bad thing, decide if it's worth tolerating. You deserve to be treated with respect. Nothing less.
The provided meal made me recall the holiday I was working at a nursing home. The bosses did treat us well and went all out to show that they appreciated our work. That holiday, I was working the evening shift and the bosses arranged to have a holiday meal made for us. They planned on Fllet Mignon with the usual trimmings. Each unit went in shifts and taking food was on the honor system, which had always worked before, but this time when the first people came back, the told us there was no steak and while the kitchen staff put it out, all that was there was the empty pan. So our holiday meal was roast potatoes, green beans, dinner roll, and apple pie. We later learned that a maintenance worker had snuck in and taken all the meat as he was leaving to go home. He was fired and after that each holiday, someone from the kitchen staff was there to serve us the meal.
@@alexaclancy8019 I really do not know, but in the end, it cost him his job and I am sure it would be difficult to find another when the next employer finds he had been fired from a nursing home run by a religious order. I prefer to think that this was his attempt to provide a special holiday dinner for his family, do not know if this is true or not, but it is better to think that than to say the fellow was a greedy SOB and decided to pig out on free food for the next few days.
When I worked for Crete Carrier, after being out sick for 6 weeks, my boss called me one day to check on me. He informed me I needed hurry and get better as my work was piling up, and there was no one else to do it.
Indeed. If I were in the job market again, and some AH asked me the "What is your greatest weakness" question, I'd answer, "Only a complete idiot would disclose to a perfect stranger what their greatest weakness was, and I would hope that XXXX Company is not in the habit of hiring complete idiots." Sorry, but my uncorked sarcasm seems to find myriad outlets these days ...
At 5:30 - I worked at EDS in the late 80's early 90's: people got FIRED for discussing pay. That was the one taboo subject. Two EDS workers could discuss anything but paychecks. In case you are wondering, H Ross Perot, the guy that created EDS, was the ONLY corporate CEO that rescued his people, EDS employees, from Iran in 1979 when the Shah was ousted. All other companies looked to the US Gov't, which always moves slowly, so their people were held hostage. Perot did it himself, told Jimmy Carter just stay out of my way.
I once worked at clothing shop where we were requested to come 30 mins before opening to vacuum and clean and finish 30 mins after closing but not allowed to put this in our timesheet. It was women clothing company who had posters everywhere how they support women but it was the most shittiest environment where we not allowed to sit till your break even if store is empty.
Yo that's...EXTREMELY illegal 😳 We weren't even allowed to let off-the-clock employees bag groceries "cuz they're bored" at the grocery store I worked at. How awful, hope someone reported that clothing store
I'm retired so I've worked many years. I have seen both jerk bosses and jerk employees. Some bosses treat their employees like slaves. Some employees act like they run the place. I know someone whose company was short staffed and she wanted to take some vacation time just to go out & have fun. He really couldn't spare her and denied her request. She grabbed him by the collar and said, "What part of, 'I want the day off,' don't you understand." And she wondered why she got fired. I worked with a girl who was always calling in sick on Friday's and Monday's. I worked with a guy who was doing his own company's work while he was supposed to be working for another company. Some younger employees act like they know it all because they're younger. I've worked for bosses who treated me like I was an idiot and always took credit for my ideas. So jerks come in either side and either sex.
When I was 18 I went over the handlebars of a motorised scooter and fractured my arm. I called my boss at the bar I worked at and told him I wouldn't be able to work that night and maybe not for a few days. He told me in his day they used to do farm work with 2 broken arms. He was born into money, gifted the bar from his multi-millionaire dad and had never done any menial labour in his life. On at least 2 occasions he also told other bar staff (7 out of 10 of which were my closest friends since school) that he was going to sack me, and then lied and said he hadn't when I confronted him about it.
I watched the video and read lots of the comments. All this illustrates why we need more unionization in America. There are two ways to make money in corporate America. (1) Charge as much as you can for the product or service you provide. (2) Pay as little as possible for the materials and labor that go into the product or service that you provide. Therefore, it is natural for corporations to want to keep workers ignorant and powerless and screw them out of wages and benefits every chance they get. America could learn a lot from European workers! (We also have a totally corrupt government thanks to Chief Justice John Roberts and "Citizens United.") Wealthy individuals and corporations are allowed to "donate" unlimited amounts of money to campaigns of political candidates of their choice. It's called "free speech." What this amounts to is that monied interests can pick and promote their own stooge candidates, get them elected and then totally control/write every law they pass. Guess who's getting screwed continuously? Workers! It's time for some very serious changes.
I once worked for a company that had us use travel letters for our expenses in the field. When we were finally issued credit cards, company executives got upset because those were reserved for their positions only.
We had a TERRIBLE boss at work. so the owner came down one night. Cleaned out bad bosses office put everything by the curb. Now we have a great boss. And New Trucks. Not new "used" trucks.
I was a good boss...excellent 401k, paid 100% for unused vaca over a certain amount and even 50% for unused sick. year end bonuses out of my own pocket. Still some employees acted like I still owed them something. Due to our business we were very busy during a particular summer day so had a moratorium on vacation at that time. This one gal who was always telling folks she was a Berkley grad begged to have the day off because she didnt have anyone to babysit her kids...found out she and her husband went on a Vegas trip. Another gal I allowed her to bring her handicapped teen to work and sit her in the break room because she was having behavioral issues. Then when I turned her down for advancement she went ballistic and complained to my superiors that I was abusive (they knew it was ridiculous). People can be jerks boss or employee.
This reminds me years ago when I was working at Orkin pest control, and the pay sucked morale was in the toilet, and so the new boss came in and put in a single serve Keurig coffee maker 😂and in her feeble little brain that was supposed to fix everything, she watched people quit around her sometimes two a day😂
Previous boss here. I had 25 employees. I gave all the my employees freedom from having the boss above their head watching them all the time. Three of them gave me a very bad time. One insulted me, yelled at me and became nearly violent. I learned that he had been influenced by an acquaintance who held a similar job elswhere. He was told he was exploited with a low pay. I told him that I knew he was illiterate and could not even write a tweet on his phone, I had compensated for many years for his inabilities because I had pity on him. The other two stole goods from my Inventory and paid time to run their sidelines. Every one had an automatic raise every year according to that years inflation rate and five days paid holidays on top of their vacation. I decided to sell my business and those three were kicked out by the new owner. (The illiterate one nearly busted a vein when he was told to fill out sales reports every week on his newly supplied computer.)
That last one was painful. I'm a manager and I refuse to ask my guys to do anything I won't and if they're at the office I am too. First in last out. You pull shit like this and you erode trust and get a toxic work environment, and you earn everything that happens next. Treat your employees like you want to be treated and train them to be leaders themselves and you get farther than pretending they're some sort of consumable product. Fuck these managers.
@@rairai3517 Unfortunately, we couldn't do that. What we did find as a workable defense though, was to do exactly as he said. Since he was so often wrong about what he wanted, if we did just exactly what he told us, it would blow up in his face. His boss eventually figured it out and got rid of him.
The boss who made that last sign needs to be drug-tested immediately. Sad part is, I even did one of those when I took a pay to switch from contractor scum to full time minion.
My last job I was working in was a warehouse where we were pretty spaced out and we got grief for not coming in for being sick so I came in one day and I wasn’t feeling well. Coughing and sneezing. I told him later on that I wouldn’t be able to ride in the van to deliver something because it’s in a closed area and I didn’t want to get the other person sick. It was a Wednesday. I was so sick I had to take the next two days off and I rarely miss work. I came in the next Monday and he pulled me over and said that it was borderline insubordination. I told him if you hate that you’ll really hate what I’m about to say and I told him that that was my last day. He told me to leave and I did. I wasn’t trying to blind side him but that group did shady shit and now they’ve lost so many people one area is closed because they don’t have anyone that knows how to work it. I had enough and man did it feel good
When I was in college, I worked at a pizza place in the kitchen. One night me and my roommate were cooking out and drinking beer when my boss Mark calls me from work. He asked if I could come in tonight due to the fact some of the cooks called off. I told him im about 8 beers into a 12 pack and cant drive to work, so he goes, "I will have one of the delivery drivers come get you". I said Im not going into work drunk so I can cut my fingers off or smash my hand in the dough roller. He seriously sat there on the phone waiting for me to say yes...come pick me up.
Where I am coz the law says so. Minimum 4 weeks taken a week at a time or any combination you want. Woe to any boss who tries to stop you from taking them.
2:21 my regional manager has said this same stupid shit before. The way I see it is everyone should pull their own weight. Not someone (me) doing more work than the other 2 guys in the warehouse. I'm pulling more than my own weight for my work. Case in point Friday they expect me to move the tanker on the pad to unload it once I'm done loading my dad's truck, yet that same tanker has to be turned around to position it on the pad to unload which can't be done because I'm not allowed to take the trucks on the road period, and the hoses won't reach under the trailer. Plus the guy that brought the truck back the day before won't stay long enough to even bother to move it, nor will they make him do it. Plus they've been telling me the same bull shit lie since November about them sending me to truck driving school. While I did want to get my Class A CDL back then that ship has sailed because they won't backup what they say. Oh and my dad's truck never got done being loaded until 6 pm and everyone else was gone...
Does this make anyone else wonder if the jerk bosses are behind the video, just trying to get people to lower their expectations? Now i want a video about awesome bosses to compete with this one and make all the lousy bosses worried about how good others can have it somewhere else!
Good one. For contrast: at one point, the company I used to work at was in rather dire times because of the 2007 crisis, all the bosses/co-owners choosed NOT to be paid for six months so all the employees would keep getting our full pay. Without making any fuss of it, too. Your move, crappy boss behind the video. Try to make me lower my expectations now.
I work part time after school and at weekends, the couple I work for are awesome. The lady even makes nice meals for me and does my laundry. The man has taught me so much and is always helpful.......oops, no wait. I work on our family farm with mum and dad......🤣🤣🤣 gotchya
I have bever understood companies that refuse to tell you what they pay or what shift you would have, what experience you need, etc untill you go through all of the applications and interviews and physicals and drug tests. I wasted half my life applying for jobs that paid way too little, or needed a qualification that i didnt have.
My last day was Thursday. Friday I would be boarding a plane to move over 12 hours drive away. Thursday boss tells me I’m on schedule for next week because of people out sick. No I’m not. I most certainly was, and it’s only 4:00, there’s overtime, what am I doing? I punch out-Sunday I will be in blank, forever. An offer to have my rear written up and more yelling about my attitude as someone from HR and bosses boss has shown-for my escort to exit interview. I was told by someone that on Sunday the explosion was epic as I changed numbers and I couldn’t get called to be gotten in for shifts after quitting.
I've worked for exactly two different firms in my work life. In both cases, they were excelent bosses (you know, the ones who care for and are an inspiration to their employees). I was once told that I "had no ambition" because I refused to search for a higher-paying job. My answer? "No, I have a DIFFERENT kind of ambition - not to work for assholes. And I've fullfilled it." Abel, Ramon, hats off to the two of you.
that's the kind of boss I aspire to be. The way I see it, you spend most of your waking hours at work, so as long as the work gets done, have as much fun as possible. I manage a commercial sales team, and lead the region in close rate and net profit. I like to think its because I have a team that looks forward to getting to work each day and puts in extra effort to keep it a nice place to work.
Sounds like a damn life well lived!
Nice to see a post like yours… and sadly rare.
Working with two middle aged bosses they discussed my body and whether I "was good at sex", right there in front of a male customer. Then they asked me if I wanted to star in a home made porn film. I was 17/18. Male customer was so concerned he actually waited around the corner till he saw both of them leave and then came back in to give me advice to quit immediately, just lock the shop door and put the keys through the letter box. Gave me his name and address and told me if my unemployment claim was denied he would be a witness for me. One of my bosses was the town Mayor at the time. Yes I left and no my claim wasn't denied. This was back in the early 80s, so there wasn't anything I could other than leave.
Worked at a place near Melrose. Yeh, that's right, the famous Melrose place. The girl I worked with found a wallet in a phone booth. She called the owner. He was so grateful he offered her a job! She took it!
@@phlushphish793 That's nice! There's always good people around to make up for the bad I find.
Plus, today I learned that Melrose Place is real!
@@madoldbatwoman I always think there's more good people than bad, or we would've been gone eons ago. About 2/3 to 1/3, the same ratio of Angels who left heaven to follow Satan!
I’m so sorry you had to go through that. I hope you and that customer get all the best things in this world.
Did his "flavor of the month" call you a good worker bee and try to be your friend? SMH😔
Here's a joke my Dad told me when I was about twelve:
When the body was first being made all the parts wanted to be the boss.
The eyes said, "We should be the boss because we find food and look out for danger."
The hands said, "We should be the boss because we use tools and make clothing and shelter."
The legs said, "We should be the boss because we carry the body everywhere it needs to go."
The brain said, "I should be the boss because I think and make decisions."
And, on and on it went, with all the parts bickering and arguing over who would be the boss.
Finally, the asshole piped up and said, "I want to be the boss."
The other body parts laughed and laughed and said, "Why should you be the boss? You're an asshole!"
So the asshole stopped itself up. Soon the eyes were blurry and crossed, the hands trembled, the legs were weak, and the brain was feverish.
The other body parts finally gave up and told the asshole he could be the boss.
The moral of the story is: You don't have to be a brain to be the boss. Just an asshole.
id seen that on a poster when i was younger, lol just the other day, i told my wife this joke, and here it is! what a small world...lol have a great day!
Haven’t seen this joke in a long time, just told it to my hubby. Thanks I needed a good laugh tonight! 😂🤣😂🤣
I've never seen this before, I love it.
This is actually only slightly different from the original, ancient version. It was just the stomach in that one. Completely different vibe of course but it’s amazing how far some fables come.
Great joke but its been around as long as there have been bosses, I heard it when I started working over 45 years ago.
5:25
If you are in the USA, this is illegal. National Labor Relations Act is a federal law, it doesn’t vary by state. You are protected when you discuss work conditions with coworkers, including openly talking about your wages and benefits. There are a few exceptions, but for the vast majority of employees in the US, this is a protected right. Your boss tells you to stop talking about your pay so you can keep getting underpaid.
There is such a thing as "right to work" states. Basically, you can be fired for any reason, or no reason at all. "Insubordination" is a good one. "Not meeting company standards and expectations". Many hourly wage earners in the US barely make enough to meet living expenses (and some are paid so little, they qualify for food stamps). Even with a solid case you may not be able to afford lawyers to fight a big corporation that can drag out a case until you literally die of old age.
@@birdgirl2623 Even in "At will" states, firing someone for such an offense can get a business into major trouble and have massive fines levied against them. Especially when they document it like above
The original post is correct re Section 7 rights under the NLRA. Right to work means not being compelled to pay union dues. Has nothing to do with at-will. Even in at-will employment, these rights will apply.
Yes, but the company has money and lawyers, and you paying money to lose more money over your loss of money is... not a fight it's possible to win. And then they blackball you in the industry because why should we hire someone who sues over abuse when we can hire someone who doesn't?
To be honest, discussing a salary is really good way how to ruin a company. And I dont mean it just financially. But poison a collective.
Everyone of us negotiate our contract. If you dont like the money, feel free to try it somewhere else.
worked for a family-owned construction firm once (wasnt one of the family who owned it) - one year a couple weeks before xmas, the boss comes round to tell us that NOT ONLY was the company unable to afford any xmas bonuses that year, BUT ALSO they were going to shut down over the holiday & lay everyone off (so not only would we not get any straight pay, but we'd lose any vacation pay that we hadnt used yet) - after we came back to work after Jan 1, the big boss was being a big jerk, slamming doors, yelling at everyone, that kind of thing, and finally the supervisor corralled his secretary: "why is Floyd so upset?" "he's mad because you guys didnt chip in to get him a xmas gift this year!"
a lot of us bailed out soon after that, and someone had the last laugh by calling the feds & turning in the big boss for software piracy.
We work alone and one of the staff team is diabetic, so kept sweets in the desk drawer in case of hypos. Our delightful manager not only ate them and refused to replace them but said he'd do it again if we replaced them.
@Su-ri5ob isn't this some kind of intentional interruption of medical treatment or something?
Medical treatment wouldn't make sense, but he has those literally for the specific intent to help him in case a certain medical problem occurs. I feel like it should be illegal to do that.
Working as a machinist in the 80s I arrived to work late one day. The boss asked me why I was late. I told him my clutch blew up on the way in and I had to hitch hike the rest of the way. He told me, "You should leave earlier so when little things like that happen I wouldn't be late!" Needless to say I quit soon after.
It's funny how your boss can take an entire day off because a few people who don't even know they exist have lost a sports game, but if a dear family member of yours suddenly falls seriously ill or even passes away, such as a father or a mother, someone who has taken care of you for decades, then you're just playing the victim and finding excuses not to work.
Which is why where I am on top of all the other leave we have that no boss would dream of trying to stop us using, we have several days a year bereavement leave for close family if we need it. I don't get these posts. They'd all be illegal here & laws are enforced (otherwise why have them?). I feel sorry for these people.
There's a reason that I told my children and grandchildren that unless you are the boss, you're working for an idiot.
At a meeting once, the Plant Manager told us that we are all responsible for quality. I pointed out that only management has the authority to decide what quality is, and that we ship sub-standard parts every day on management's orders. "If I don't get to decide what quality is, and I don't get to decide what gets shipped," I told him, "don't tell me that I'm responsible for it." I walked out of the meeting at that point. BTW: I'm union, so the PM couldn't fire me for daring to point out his hypocrisy. However, he never brought the subject up again.
"Unless you are the boss, you are working for an idiot." I can't even express how true those words are. Thank you for taking the time to really educate the kids in your life
My daughter works for an airplane parts manufacturer, in trouble for selling refurbished parts as new. He said, "If the police come, don't let them in! They'll have to break down the door!"
@@phlushphish793 Your daughter's boss is a moron. Since it's an airplane parts manufacturer, if anyone in authority comes to the door, he won't be lucky enough for it to be the cops. Rather, it will be the FAA, with a U.S. attorney and the FBI in tow. Locking the door will only make a bad thing worse.
Okay, that took brass ones. :)
I certainly agree with that one. they told us the same thing in my union shop shipping cars, I had a line manager steamed at me for tagging quality issues. He went over each item I had put a blue dot on and told me to remove them as the average customer wouldn't see that!!
Worst job for me (years ago) was being a viticulture student with a training college. We got bussed out to vineyards each day to provide free labour for the wealthy owners. We were told it was illegal to pay us, as we were students. At the end of it, we were given 'certificates in viticulture". I applied for a job at one of the vineyards afterwards and was rejected on the grounds that I hadn't done any paid work in the industry. What a scam that was.
Wow. What country was that? Here in New Zealand you would be able to pursue a legal remedy. Not legal to make people work for free, used to be called slavery.
@@nikiTricoteuse That was Tasmania in the 90s. Government run course for people looking for work. So, I'm guessing, a quid-pro-quo between a political party and one of its donors.
@@DuckReach432 Ah. That makes sense. Govt logic being that as they were already "paying" you via a benefit no-one else needed to. Their arrogance is palpable. Pretty much guaranteed cronyism somewhere in there. I remember getting in an argument with some twat at the benefit office when l first came back from overseas and who wanted to send me on a course to learn how to apply for jobs. She took umbrage when l explained that l had applied for and successfully obtained many jobs in several countries as well as run a couple of my own companies over the course of my THIRTY year working life and that l saw zero benefit in attending such a course and, that something to upskill my computer skills would be far more use. Threatened to stop my benefit.
@@nikiTricoteuse I can understand some of these bureaucrats being short with people being rude to them. There's no excuse for the power-trip types who need to denigrate others for their own self-aggrandisement. If you don't want to serve the public, don't be a public servant.
@@DuckReach432 Totally true. I worked in customer service for a huge part of my working life cos l loved it.
I had a boss once who would berate us all the time and wanted to cut our vacation time. We unionised the place and when he saw he could no longer treat us badly, he quit.
Anecdotes besides - you DO realice that was historically the whole point of that "unions" thing, right? To protect workers from the employer's abuse in a time (XIX century) where such abuse was actually not just commonplace, but considered "normal" by whole sectors of society. We may have improved a lot, but every now and then it pays off to remember that!
I'm too European to understand. Last year I got into "trouble" with our secretary for almost not using up all 40 days of holidays in time!
Wish we had that problem , but we're american , meh ....
true, i can not understand most of the stuff too. do people in america have no self-respect?
@@LednacekZ no self respect just greedy jerk behavior , fortunately I've not had such experiences I've had friends that have had some small experiences but not this terrible .......
@@LednacekZ America has too few unions and too few regulations protecting workers. The reason the OP got in "trouble" for not using up their vacation? Because we have laws in Europe that enforce responsibility onto employers. I'm pretty sure that if someone repeatedly fails to use up their vacation in time, it would count as negligence by the employer to actually give them time to use up their vacation. Also, if you leave a company, even if they fire you, they need to pay you for all outstanding holidays and the company needs to keep that money in an extra, earmarked account that can't be used for anything else. So, if there's a lot of not taken holidays, the company has a lot of locked up cash that they could use otherwise. I once worked at a place that was tight on money and they made us all consume as much of our open holidays as possible so they could access that money.
As an American, you're moving up in the world if you can swing a lower-tier job with 10 days annual paid leave. And good luck using sick time without it counting against you.
I had a manager who was hanging on by a thread with the company. He hassled me when I got to work a few min late after visiting with my terminally ill father. Then he shows up at the funeral home during the wake! Asked me when I'll be in. It was on veterans day. On a Monday. My birthday was Thursday. I told him I'd see him next week! He was fired after we had to fill out a form about how we felt about the company & management.
The 'Just once I wish my employees would say...." Sign, Yeah that's a pretty big red flag get out of there
It must have taken ages to do that sign! Wonder if the asshole did it on work time?
The Queen of Narcissism wrote it obviously.
Employees: "Just once we wish we could say..."
If it's serious then absolutely. I've had a boss though that would post stuff like that as a joke and wait for our rebuttal posts. We all kept it above the belt, so to speak, and it made for a better work dynamic to be able to just vent about the little things in a humorous way. No one is perfect, bosses or employees.
Once had my Resources department tell me I didn’t need the day off to go to my fathers funeral because I worked nights. “Just go after work and you can still be on time for the shift afterwards!” Needless to say I made sure that didn’t happen.
I once applied at a company who expected me to take a portable phone home with me and, "...if it rings at 3 a.m., you get up & answer it!" I said, "So, if I do that, I guess I'm off the next day?" "Oh, no. You still have to show up for your shift like normal." Uh, no!
@@phlushphish793 I take it no “on call” pay either.
I worked for a boss much like these bosses and it lasted all of two hours. He screamed at me! I had a very good resume' and came with a LOT of work experience, more than that clown ever had and yet he felt a need to scream at me in less than two hours. I got up, left his office and he yelled, "I'm not finished with you" to which I replied, "Oh yes you are you sawed off sob - your lack of self-esteem has certainly caused you a lot of emotional problems and until you can learn to be a real boss, you'll never keep good employees". Cya.
I went through the same deal. The people at this distribution center I worked at back in 2020 weren’t just Karens, they were *Hyper-Karens.*
Almost was what happened to me but I always ask friends that work at places I want to apply to what are the boss and job conditions are , saves moving from job to job ........
I had a boss like that. Threatened to fire me over a mistake I made the cost the co. $30. Took me a whole year to get out. 2nd to last day I read a fax that came over. His manager made a mistake that cost the co. $300,000! Gee, John, did you threaten to fire Walt, "...in a New York minute?"
Had a day labor job like that and said good bye and keep your money.
@@TheRisingStorm316 *HMMM*
Wow. All of them were bad but, that last one was very "special" I can pretty much guarantee that none of those things were ever said by the sign maker before they became a boss and, judging by the level of entitlement shown in the sign, l bet they were a nightmare employee.
Depends on the boss. Lets hope (s)he just thinks this sign is just funny and nothing to take serious.
Um guys, it says “Just once I wish my employees would say…”
That’s the BOSS wishing the EMPLOYEES would say those things-
@@dragonhorse6433 Yes. So? That changes nothing, they already know that. These comments wouldn't make sense the other way around, why are you assuming they think it's the other way around?
@@specialopsdave I just realized I read their comments wrong lmao
Yeah that’s my fault, I make no sense here
I worked for a guy who basically said this same thing to me, I told him there was a way he could have it and when he asked how I told him. You'll just have to work extra hard at becoming a good manager. And then I walked away.
The Great Resignation is because of bosses/companies like these.
True, people realized they no longer had to tolerate this kind of crap. Life’s too short!
Look in the "help wanted ads",for a company constantly wanting new staff, mostly a sign that the working environment is probably toxic.
Amen. I hear you
weird thing is mgmt thinks they generally do superlative jobs! they're beyond baffled why everyone quit on them.
On top rude or insane customer, and shitty pay. The thing is, management can fix both of those problems: pay people better and have a no tolerance policy for abuse. Done!
A place I use to work at called me wanting me to work the overnight shift that night. I was two states away, literally at a family member's funeral that he knew about... He got pissy when I told him it would take me from that moment to the beginning of the shift to get there and I was not leaving the funeral nor driving through two states to then work all night. He started to threaten me as I was hanging up on him.
I’m retired now, but some these triggered me. I was in the hospital with double pneumonia when the supervisor “ visited” me and wanted to know when I was returning to work.
I worked at a hospital for years. Started feeling pretty bad. Lots of weird symptoms - short of breath with very short walks, or minimal exertion, heart pounding in my ears at all times, lightheaded when I stood up, lots of leg swelling, and extreme fatigue ( I would even nod out if I sat or stood still for a moment). Every one passed this off as stress - my husband was having issues - so that made sense. Everyone’s solution was for me to rest - like I’m already sleeping 12 or 13 hours a day! Eventually I was terminated for poor performance. A few months later I was admitted to same hospital in heart failure, with severe and quite persistent arrhythmia. In ICU on several IV medications. Several procedures to fix arrhythmia over the next few months. Medication adjustments that required me to be monitored in the hospital. My coworkers were now taking care of me.
At 3:34, the “COFFEE IS FOR FULL TIME STAFF ONLY” is the one the got me. Seriously?!? Every business I’ve worked for or visited in my life had free, complimentary coffee for employees, visitors, guests, or whoever happened to be in the building and wanted coffee. This is incredibly petty.
Yeh, and it's all the cheap 'Farmer's brand' coffee. I gave up drinking office coffee decades ago.
i owned a small business and always offered free, (it pains me to even point this out) coffee to any and all employees / customers.
@Koowluh Damn! I thought MY employer was cheap! (Well, they are!). When I worked for Transamerica, an Indian company took them over (yes, from India). The 1st thing they said, was, "these water stations are only for us. You can't use them. Only your own." They're incredibly racist! But, they did give us $1K every 6 months we didn't quit. Didn't get that outta the old guys!
I’ve worked at hospitals and nursing homes, on midnights, where coffee wasn’t always available. You’d have to spend half of your break time roaming halls to a break room (or even patient waiting area) to get coffee. Or there’d be coffee in the kitchen/break area but you couldn’t drink it at your work station .
Any company who worries about the cost of coffee is on the ragged edge of dissolution.
The best thing to come out of Covid is how easy it is to just work somewhere else. Everyone is hiring. Maybe one day corporations might realize their employees are actual people, not just vehicles to make the CEO and share holders more money.
I remember a retail job where our dept (covered by 2 clerks) was on 2 floors. We always tried to have one person watching the register, but occasionally both of us were helping elsewhere and a customer would have to wait a few minutes to check out. The manager decided to install a desk bell. We tossed it in the trash. The next one was screwed to the counter. We opened it up and removed the little ringer on the inside. The last one was a different model that couldn't have the top removed. We filled it with super glue through the opening on the top. The next week the bell was gone. Funny how these things happen.
I've been retired since 2007. It's easy to see things haven't improved in the workplace. My advice, know your state work laws, don't hesitate to report the company to the DOL and be sure to have notes of dates/times/those involved to help prosecute the A-holes.
Yes. I think it's law that you can discuss salary at work.
I'm too afraid to report any sort of mistreatment at work because I am afraid that there might be corrupt higher ups as well and that nothing will get resolved.
@@lostsilver5469 That's almost always the case. HR is there to protect the co., not you. I wouldn't say anything unless something so egregious happens that an attorney will take your case.
@@lostsilver5469 That is the behavior owners/managers count on to keep employees under their thumb.
@@gregsettle9725 Sadly yes, but at the same time I heard you could sue the company if HR doesn't do anything.
We were at DIsneyland and my wife's boss called and said he might need her after all so could you just stay in the hotel room for a couple of days?
She told him no and gave notice when she got back. He must have been insane.
Been there, done that. I put in a request for a week's vacation 6 months in advance. Informed the boss that the family was going to be in the wilderness, and there would be no cell signal. I come back to work the next week, and my boss is all like, "Where were you!? I was trying to call you all week!"
I once had a boss who made a point of keeping the group for which I was the Task Leader under budget on a government contract to ensure the contract would always be renewed. We didn't mind too much, since the work was actually interesting... until we found out our main competitor, doing almost identical work for a different part of the agency on the other side of the building, was paying their staff actual market rate. Their contracts were also always renewed even though my group was the one that kept winning awards. After some serious lunchtime talks, I had my entire group use one lunch break to visit the boss' office at company HQ and explained to him very politely that if we didn't get pay parity, he'd lose the contract because none of us would continue working for the company. We all got 40% -- yes, *forty* percent - raises and oddly enough, the contract renewals continued unabated. :-)
5:30 - you are allowed to discuss wages per the National Labor Relations Act. Just FYI for anyone here not aware of that. I didn't know that until I was in my early 40's. Wish I had known earlier.
A company I worked for had the no salary discussion "rule", but of course it happens from time to time anyway, even by accident. It came to light at one point that several "new hires" were receiving higher salaries than the people that would be training them and many had worked there for 5 years or more. Of course this did not go over well. At a later point the wages were so repressed that a special adjustment of almost ten percent was made across the board. It, of course, helped but was still not enough to make up for the stagnant raised over the previous 15 years.
I got fired for discussing wages with co-workers. Specifically, asking if anyone had ever gotten a raise.
I had been there 3 years, one guy had been there 11, nobody had ever gotten a raise.
I was technically fired for "badmouthing the company".
My badmouthing was telling the new hire, "They don't give raises here."
@@devilman3806 I am not a lawyer, but that sounds like it might fall under the Act. That was crappy. I am a transportation manager for my company and I cannot imagine firing someone over that. I don't even know how I would go about documenting it without lying or making myself look bad.
Most companies are not as blatantly stupid as the one in the video, stating the reason for discipline as talking about salary. Dealing with that would be as easy as photocopy it and mail it to state and federal labor boards. Then sit back and watch the carnage while people in suits show up and drag everyone involved over the coals.
Fifteen years after graduating university with a master's degree I was making (in today's dollar equivalent) $93,000 with full benefits. I then quit my job due to having to work for similar jerks as the bozos described in these emails. I started my own business and after a few years I was making $200,000 with only clients to answer to. To my former bosses (except one) I say to them 🖕
Easy solution for 90% of these - don't share your personal number with people at work. If you're not on the clock, you're unavailable.
my company said we had to use an app on our phone i held up my ICE phone an Nokia 3310 said mine dont do apps or WAP but has worm on it, will the new phone that your going to get me be able to do apps?
that weekend 25 people dug out old pre smart phones
company said never mind
Just remembered another odd one...wife worked in a hospital and a fellow nurse had worked there 20 years and for her anniversary they gave her a gift certificate for a free cup of coffee...at the hospital cafeteria!!! Told her that was like getting a card saying "go to hell".
Whenever we had " we value you" (aka your hard work gave management more money) pizza, our boss would make sure nobody took more that 2 slices and she took the rest home. Pretty sure she was the one who ordered, probably got extra, using company money.
It's so funny how bosses of the lowest-paying, crappiest jobs in the world somehow think people will do everything they say instead of going anywhere else.
heard a guy say "these kids today are so lazy, they dont want to work" i pointed out that the question should be "why cant we get people to work FOR US"
Had a boss who was an absolutely incompetent jerk. Credit where it is due, what he was really good at was making others believe he was competent. He knows all the right phrases and was a smooth talker.
That impression lasted about 5 minutes once you actually started working with him. Took all the praise for things that went well, took credit for work that others did and had zero issues throwing team members under the bus to make himself look better. Also tried to play us against each other. (BIG mistake #1 because we are a very tight-knit team that has been working together for many years)
Tried to leave as few paper trails as possible, so somehow we managed to have at least two ppl around when he came in. Also made a couple VERY inappropriate remarks about female colleagues to some of us, when nobody else was around. After the second person from our team handed in their resignation explicitly stating they were not willing to work anymore under his lead, alarm bells started ringing at HR. He was fired within hours of the second person leaving the premises. They had again spilled the beans about his conduct, and hinted that if this person remained in that post for longer, there was a real chance the entire team might end up quitting. They let it slip that two of us were already looking at job openings and one actually had an offer to work somewhere else and had asked to sleep on it. We were running at 120% capacity plus overtime because we had to pick up the slack from the two people who had left. We were barely hanging on.
Meanwhile, Mr Incompetent loved to hold meetings. As many meetings as possible. He plastered us with completely pointless and idiotic meetings until we could not get any work done and started missing deadlines (which then of course was „our“ fault). Even when I told him point blank that an important project will not get done if I have to join the meeting right away, he insisted „No, I really need you to be there…“ Needless to say, this was one more of those meetings where you still have no clue why you are there 10 minutes in except to indulge someone who loves to hear himself talk. Wasted time all around, and we caught flak for missing a deadline. Thankfully the entire company had our backs because some other department heads had caught on to this dude’s complete lack of competence. This made the rounds pretty quickly. Wherever possible we tried to get things done with other departments without involving him.
Said manager lasted about a year and made two very competent and experienced colleagues quit out of sheer frustration, one of whom had been with us for almost a decade. This idiot manager’s termination came like a bolt from the blue for him and he was visibly shocked. He was completely oblivious to the fact that the writing had been on the wall for him for several weeks. He was a marked man at that point and pretty much everybody else knew what was going to happen but not when. We later learned that he was moaning about how he was a victim of an illoyal team that had conspired against him. Which was not entirely incorrect, to be honest. But then, loyalty and respect have to be earned.
We were cleaning up the damage he had caused for several months. His email inbox contained some pretty major landmines that would really have gotten a whole lot of people into a heap of trouble and cost the company a fortune.
You were lucky he wasn’t good at schmoozing the other managers and higher-ups. Plenty of these narcissistic holes have the backing of leadership because they know how to grease the skids with those higher up.
0:33 In Germany your boss will get mad if you don't take your vacation days, because they will get problems with the unions. By law you are entitled to two weeks of continuous leave and the total leave by law is 20 working days for a 5 day work week or 24 days for a 6 day work week. However, in most companies there are 30 working days of vacation. In addition, if you are severely disabled by more than 50 degrees, you are entitled to another 5 days in case of a 5-day week. And these days do not include sick days. On the contrary, in the case of illness on vacation you get the vacation credited again, because vacation is for recreation and illness is not recreation. Sick leave is paid for 6 weeks by your boss, after that about 60% of your normal brutto income for a year by your insurance company without the need to pay tax or insurance with that money. (In Germany you are paid a netto income by your employer, no saving for the IRS at the end of the year. Netto is your brutto minus taxes and insurances (health and employment)).
I had some pretty awful bosses. The old narcissistic lady married with a younger guy, who was a painter in her younger years, and she hired me to take care of her cottage. I was alone to clean, change the bedsheets, do the laundry, serve the clients, prepare the breakfasts, it was insanely exhausting and she was a horrible person. I also worked in a vineyard few years in a row, the boss was a raging alcoholic and a violent psycho. His wife was probably cheating on him with the young male employees. I also had a summer job once where we had to pick corn in the fields, the heat was unbearable and our manager didn't even brought water to us, as it's usually done in the agricultural jobs. He was also a huge AH. Tell me about awful bosses lol
Agri jobs are SUPPOSED TO PROVIDE: shade (breaks and if someone goes down for sunstroke), potable water, access to sanitation facilities (porta johns that are actually useable) and hand washing facilities. As well as breaks and mealtimes. Often abused. Document THEN call it in.
@veruschkadahmer - I wouldn't boink him, so he kept writing me up with (lies) to try to get me fired. I moved to a different department with a different supervisor. Apparently they were all part of the "good ol boys" club. The different supervisor put me in the dirtiest crappy jobs he had. Next department, same thing. Even co-workers asked what I had done to p them off. Couple months later I quit. As far as the first supervisor, I shouldda told his wife about his girlfriend. Yeah, a wife and a girlfriend and hitting on me. What a douche canoe.
😑😑😑😑😑 *An old boss obviously didn't want us to take time off at the same time. So we took turn. But then she ranted off about how come there's always one person taking time off each month. We were a team of 12...*
I would have used the Trump bucks to lite a joint in front of my boss!🤣😂
I wouldn't have dirtied a good joint with anything that smelled like Trump.
@@briancooper4959 your right... that's a stink that won't go away 🤢
Micro shred it and return it , drink , sandwich , or donut your choice .....
LoL
The accompanying card is highly sus.
I'm an Aussie woman. work in logistics as a forklift operator for a large contract wine bottling company. we get 10 paid sick days a year. we get 4 weeks paid annual leave a year. plus one paid RDO (rostered day off ) per month...you can let them build up though, and cash them out if you want instead of taking them. our uniforms, and all safety gear, e.g. boots, prescription safety glasses, hearing protection, wet weather gear for working outside if we need it, is all supplied at no cost to us. we also get 3 days paid carer leave if a family member is sick. and 3 days paid bereavement leave in the case of a death in the family. if you have a serious illness, or injury that didnt happen at work, that means you wont be back to work for a long time, once you have used up 20 days of sick leave, or it runs out, income protection kicks in and pays 90% of your wages for up to 2 years if need be.
we used to get 12 dozen bottles of really nice wine per year for free as well. that changed recently due to company restructuring, and in place of that, we now get a total of $700-00 of vouchers a year to use at either a bottle shop chain (liquor store) or at a local supermarket/department store. plus an extra $50 gift card at Christmas to use at another shopping centre. its not a perfect place to work at. but comparing it to all the stories I see in this video it makes it sound like paradise. I feel really sorry for all of those that shared their stories. you deserve better than that.
2:36 In the Netherlands a whole mall was to be renovated. On the square in the middle about fifty workmen stood ready to start when a man found a nest in the tree. It seemed to be bird eggs that are pretty rare. They had to wait a month before they could continue.
I once had a boss that asked me to work at little faster. It was my first month of the job, and I was still getting used to the procedures and what not. I admit I’m not the fastest employee, but I’m not as slow as a turtle either. I told that he could have me work fast and have everything look terrible, or he could let me work at my own pace and everything would be neat and organized. He never brought it up again.
Sounds fairly reasonable. He expresses his wishes, you explain your "limitations" and he gives you space to better achieve the goals in your way. I bet you did get faster, as experience grew.
your in luck that he didnt brought it up anymore, i was working for a grocery store on a test basis (meaning work a month without contract to see if i can fit in or not, this usualy ends up with a full contract, or at least a Month pay afterwards for the amount of work you put in) however i was told i worked slow and should be faster (first week) i also asked for a Day off because i had a massive Flu attack and couldnt work on the weekend, (third week) after the last day of the month management told me i wouldnt fit in and told me that i better not work there, afterwards they gave me a can of coke and a bag of crisps and told me where the door was, now dont get me wrong i know i can be slow at work, and i actually get payed money from the state because of a mental condition, and in our country we have a system that allows company's to hire people like me for half of the Minimum wages, meaning the company pays half and the state pays the rest, meaning even if i worked slower they would still get a worker that gets payed less and works just as much as everyone else, but just at a slower pace, this MoFo just figured hed get a free worker for a month and dumped me afterwards not even deigning to pay me for Work due owed, it was stores like those that basicly turned me away from payed work, and started looking for a simple non payed job like working with Podiums and music clubs (doing all kinds of gopher work or security for the Child party's (disco for the young teens meaning between 14-17 those need a form of security too, even if its only to keep the drunk teens and adults out of the building)
I worked at a major grocery chain and the boss was all of 5'3" tall....the same height as myself but being male and short he suffered from a HUGE Napoleon complex. Company policy was to acknowledge people no matter who it was if they were within 4 feet of you at anytime. When I spoke to the butcher ( I was in produce) he came storming out of his office and dressed us down. He'd been watching on CCTV. It got to the point where myself and the butcher only were 3xpected to remain mute for 8 hours. When we complied, he got upset, wrote us up, deducted hours, all kinds of petty punative crap. I wasn't having any of it, I know my rights. So, some e mails to his boss and lightly veiled threats of going to the media had him screeching how nobody respected him. He was right, we respected ourselves. More than half the staff walked out en masse. His profits dropped and corporate shows up a month later to get to the bottom of flagging profits. Suffice to say, he's a pump jockey now at the gas station next door. Threats of lawsuits and investigations from the Ministry of Labour was enough to get the higher ups to take action but without myself and the butcher starting the ball rolling, he'd still be like Hitler in his little fiefdom making school girls cry when they spoke without asking.
I worked for a guy like that. Also worked for a woman who was even worse in the same store. They both eventually got fired. Took me a long time to realize it wasn't worth it to stick with a job like that.
I had a couple of guys make some very racist jokes to one of my darker skinned employees. I told them to get out. They refused. I GENTLY ESCORTED them out. The entire FULL restaurant clapped. Middle of nowhere Wisconsin. That is how normal people deal with racism in the real world.
I had to put up with that crap for 40 some years and when I finally retired (they think they forced me out but I was ready to quit) it was like winning the Lotto!
This sadly is mostly an American problem. These stories should be rare but they are actually the NORM. I would say a good 40% or more are court room worthy, but people are too scared/tired to do anything about it. My last boss forced me to take an hour lunch and docked me an hours pay but I still had to work 30 minutes of my hour lunch. Then when I was a few minutes late he said I was stealing time. Literally was about to punch him in the face because he couldn't understand the irony (and that it was illegal what he was doing). I'm honestly shocked America hasn't imploded yet. American companies are the single reason unions were invented to try and prevent exploitation but then the unions began exploiting. You leave America and people will get into trouble for NOT taking vacation or working more than 8 hours a day. People ask me why I work so hard on my online business and not make as much. They say just get a job and I usually scream NO. I don't want to go to jail. If I have to work for another psycho narc that has NO IDEA how to run a business one more time I will end up in prison for assault. So I will happily sell random crap online. I don't care how much money I make as long as it allows me to keep my sanity.
I worked for a restaurant that wanted a 19 yr old to come back to work after she said her Mother (who she lives with) had Covid. 'if you dont have symptoms you can still work as long as you haven't tested positive.' I quit.
I worked for a place that deducted $5 a week, if you preferred to wear jeans, instead of slacks. We were told the funds went towards our "Christmas" party.
Keep in mind..$5 a week x 52 weeks is $260 from each employee....
Christmas came around, and our "party" consisted of a subway sandwich, and a Coke, distributed to us at our desk, which we were then only allowed to eat during our regular 15 minute break, in the breakroom.
Needless to say, their turnover rate was ridiculous.
Never could see how they can't understand that loyalty goes both directions. If you shit on people, they shit on you.
That is illegal.
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Left there in '04. Found out they went out of business, a few years ago. No big loss. We all have those kinds of people, in our past.
Best thing we can do is remember them, and learn to avoid them, in the future, and be better to each other, than that.
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P.S. I like your name.
5:24 -- Fun fact: It is illegal for an employer to forbid employees from discussing their compensation with each other.
If you are ever written up for discussing pay and have a form like that, you have a wonderful settlement from the company for a violation of worker's rights by the way. The right to discuss wages is federally protected.
The best part of quitting your job is to tell your boss OFF . OVER ,OVER AND OVER.😀
I do that now, My area manager used to be a driver under me and now trys to tell how to do my job that I have been trained more than him for.
My last job, i woke up one day not feeling my legs. I called in, went to hospital asap. My doctor made all kinds of appointments for specialists to run tests to try to find out what the problem was. I kept in contact with my boss letting them know about all of my appointments, still willing to work if i could sit in a chair at the register. She texted me back, saying, "you have a lot going on right now, should i just term you?" and she eventually did. :/
The clip at 6:15 - if I had been the manager, I'd also have guaranteed the customers wouldn't be served by a person of colour...then I'd have just left them sitting there with nobody serving them.
And I would have stated to the couple:I will assure you that you will never be waited on by a "colored"person as you are now banned from this Olive Garden.
😂 poetic justice
5:27 lots of companies in the USA tell you you can not discuss wage with other employees, it is left over from a fear of staff unionising, HOWEVER it is a protected form of speech in the US and even if it is mentioned in a staff handbook, or a contract it is still protected and it is actually unlawful for a company to forbid it.... as such getting a warning or anything more serious from a company for discussing wages/salary is actually illegal. so the poster should keep that as evidence.
Exactamundo!
I worked for a big company that said explicitly in their employee handbook that you could be fired if you did not take your designated breaks. But when they were busy (because they deliberately understaffed to save money), they refused to let me leave my station even for a few minutes of your designated break time to go to the restroom. Then at the end of the shift, they would tell you that because you missed your break or breaks, you can sit in the break room for whatever time you didn't get to take before! In the state I work, there is NO law that says the company has to give you even an unpaid lunch break, much less any on clock breaks. The company I worked for has been sued over labor practices, so they gave lip service to changes. Since some states do have mandatory laws for things like breaks, working off the clock, etc., as a multi-national store, it was easier just to put the same rules for every location. I had manageable disabilities before, but working conditions broke me both mentally and physically. (And yes, I quit, but I should have quit sooner).
Can relate to the first one. I was told by my then boss to stop being so upset after three deaths in the family in less than a month. I ripped her a new one. And as for that sign with the bottom right corner saying gladly accept a pay cut, that's just plain dumb. When another employer slugged me with a 10% pay cut without warning... well, I still don't think they realised why I quit.
Not the boss, but the foreman on a job who was the boss's brother. This was an electrical contractor I worked for. Not as an electrician, but a general laborer. I'm fairly small and have issues with my shoulders, and had recently dislocated one. The boss calls an tells me that another site needs help with easy things like setting up spools for wire-pulls and laying out electrical sockets near their wall boxes etc. He says it's easy stuff, and it shouldn't bother my shoulders. I told him to please make sure that the foreman understands that I can not be lifting light fixtures over my head or carrying 20 ft sections of 5-inch conduit, and stuff like that. He assures me that he has already spoken to the foreman, and that there were already a few "strapping young guys" on the job who are doing the heavy lifting stuff.
I get there and this foreman immediately points to a stack of 2-ftX4-ft florescent light fixtures, and says those need carried to the building and put in. Well I did try. After about 5 of them, my bad shoulder popped out again. Meanwhile the young guys (two of whom were built like football players) are sitting on the floor installing outlets or telecom/ethernet ports. I was the only one lifting 60 pound light fixtures over my head and installing them into drop-ceiling grid with hardly any clearance above to angle them in to place. So it was a fight to wedge each one in and get it dropped into the grid-rails. I went to the foreman and asked him to switch me out with one of those young guys, and mentioned that the big boss himself assured me that I wouldn't be doing any overhead or heavy lifting. The foreman flat out refused and said "Get back to work."
I'm back on the 10 ft ladder struggling to get this fixture into its slot, 12 feet above the floor. My shoulder pops again with sharp pain and I drop the damn thing. It's totally fucked. One of the young guys offers to trade me jobs and the foreman comes in having a fit saying "NO! You do the what you were doing!" I tell him that I can't be lifting these up like this. or more are going to get ruined. Still having fits, he goes on about "If you can't do the job you were assigned and paid to do, then get off my site!" I told him that I was assigned to do exactly what the younger and physically fit, strong guys were doing. NOT to be the heavy lifting grunt.. He ran me off the site and later got a call from the boss, reaming him out.
It was a common thing for this company to have the older and smaller workers do the heavy lifting while the young guys (Who got paid more than double, mind you) just did the light work. Once, a 65 year old guy with a bad leg and I were carrying 2, 20 ft sections of 5-inch heavy-wall pvc conduit to lay it out for placement into a trench. We were supposed to have help from the "electrician" (the young, overpaid guy). Him and I are slogging these things through mud and and having to climb over the piles of dirt as well. We're covered in mud and it's clinging to our (required) steel-toe boots. We are piling them beside the open trench as we were told. We get about 10 of these things sitting there with no help in sight. So we head off to get two more. Mid you, we're carrying these about 250 yards from the lot, to the trench, around a building. As we get around a corner, out of the shadow of the building and into the sunlight, I saw our "help" chilling in the dry grass, on a large piece of cardboard box that he had carried there. He's in his clean American Eagle jeans and spotless white Ralph Lauren shirt and white Nike shoes, an Arizona tea sitting on the grass beside him, he's spinning his Raybans in his hand, and occasionally flicking the screen of his Apple-phone. I asked him if he was going to help carry these things. He said "Nah, don't wanna get my jeans dirty. Hey, can you take those two on up to the head of the trench? The grass is still wet over there, and I have my good shoes on." So I told the guy with me, "Sam, Drop these motherfuckers right here! We're taking a break!" I turned to Mr. Priss, and told him "Here's your conduit. We carried them to you, You're the "Electrician". You install them! By the way, You are supposed to have steel-toes, work clothes and a hardhat. Not Nikes and 90 dollar nut-huggers!" Sam & I walked off and went had a smoke & coffee break. This time the boss took the side of the "electrician". But Sam "Mysteriously" got a call from his elderly mother and had to go.. Guess who I rode to work with.... Sam. He was my ride, since my house was on his way to & from the site. I had to go too. Mr. Priss had to get his clothes dirty, and installed the conduit in the muddy trench himself. As was his job to do, anyway. He also got wrote up for not having proper work clothes and boots.
Edit for fixing whatever typos I saw only after hitting the "Comment" button.
You know, Typos are only noticed after submitting the comment...
"typos are only noticed after submitting the comment"
Indeed. I've published a few books on Amazon, and the last typo always sits in the middle of a Look-Inside screen, squatting like an ugly toad and laughing at you. So I understand. :)
This does not fill me with hope for finding a good boss, once I start working.
Network with your friends to get the inside scoop on the boss before you apply ......
Most bosses are at least ok, some are pretty good, a few are really good but you never hear on them, but you hear about the bad ones.
Research companies, look for ones that have several long term employees - that’s usually a good sign.
Look up companies on Glassdoor. Aim to work for 4-star rated companies or better. Be cautious with 3-star ones, and never work for anything below.
Keep in mind that for all the 100 bad bosses, there are 500 horrible employees. It goes both ways.
@8:16 I worked for a company that would immediately have you collect any personal items, escort you to your auto, and be witnessed off the lot if you gave 2 weeks notice. They would pay you for doing nothing for two weeks. It went into effect after six months perfect attendance. It was part of the hire in agreement.
A disgruntled employee can do a lot of internal damage in those two weeks. I saw it once where I worked. Files deleted/overwritten, settings changed, certain papers lost or shredded. I could understand the above in light of that.
@@michaelotto8696 Yes.
My last boss was physically, verbally, and emotionally abusive. Becoming disabled a few months after I quit was the best thing that ever happened to me. Which says a lot about work in the USA.
TBH at my age, I'm getting Soft. When our new Supervisor demoralized the team, I was the THIRD Person to quit.
7:20 no doubt the boss was a jerk...but a lot of places have had to implement a strict "no giving expired food away" due to greedy people who eat an item given freely (or taken from dumpster) and then sue for it "making them sick". The companies won't risk bad publicity but will pay off then enforce new rules to avoid losing business.
Always a few rotten apples to spoil the whole barrel.
A previous coworker used to work at a small pizza place, and every few hours, he’d have to throw away any pizza left on the warming table, as per state law. He knew there were a bunch of homeless folks that were unable to find jobs, even though they tried! Technically, he wasn’t allowed to simply give them the old pizza. But my dude was crafty! He’d carefully wrap the slices and layer them in the bag, and then set that on top of the trash bin, then go inside like he forgot something. The homeless got the pizza, and he never got in trouble.
…I wonder how he’s doing now
But referring to homeless people as "animals" shows the cruelty behind the action.
That excuse is a complete fabrication of the companies. Look up "bill emerson good samaritan food donation act", it protects good-faith donors from suit. As to the actual reason they don't want to make donations that they're hiding behind this lie? I don't know, but I suspect it has to do with taxes related to inventory losses. Also when individual franchisees do it the reason could be anything from malicious cruelty to ignorance of the legal protections afforded to donors.
B. S.
So many companies don't give a Christmas bonus that I've always been in appreciative. That is, until I worked for a small company and we got two $10 off coupons for a restaurant chain, that the owner got for free.
The pettiness of some of the notices remind me of Dolores Umbridge in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".
Most of my jobs have been pretty good, but there was one about 20 years ago...
When I started working there, I was 30th in terms of senority. When I got caught up in the quarterly round of layoffs, I was _6th_. Three or four people quit, but in 18th months, they'd laid off 21 people in a 30 person company and had hired replacements. My personal favorite was the guy who got let go because "he closed the blinds on his window in the wrong direction"
The boss had about four "good" employees, who could blame literally anything on one of the "bad" employees, and the boss would blindly accept what he was told. In my case, I came back from vacation and immediately got called into the office to be told I was being written up. For something that happened while I was gone. With a client that I'd never had any dealings with. When I explained that, I was told that my biggest problem was that I "refused to take criticism".
He didn't much like it when in the exit interview when I was being fired, I told him that I'd had exactly two good days working for his company-the day he hired me, and the day he fired me.
got to remember that 2 good days one
In all my years of working I can honestly say I’ve had 4 nice bosses, the rest were horrible…
I'm sure if you asked those 4 nice bosses, they would tell you that in all their years they have had 100 horrible employees. It goes both ways.
I worked for a “State Government Corporation,” they didn’t pay overtime, only Comp. Time. When we went on vacation or out sick, which was rare. We were paid first out of Comp. Time. Even if we were over the maximum limit on accrued on our Vacation or Sick pay, and had to forfeit, anymore of this benefit. So we were basically working overtime for free.
As long as you keep working for bosses like this, especially if you know about, is sending the message that "this behavior" is ok. As with every bad thing, decide if it's worth tolerating. You deserve to be treated with respect. Nothing less.
The provided meal made me recall the holiday I was working at a nursing home. The bosses did treat us well and went all out to show that they appreciated our work. That holiday, I was working the evening shift and the bosses arranged to have a holiday meal made for us. They planned on Fllet Mignon with the usual trimmings. Each unit went in shifts and taking food was on the honor system, which had always worked before, but this time when the first people came back, the told us there was no steak and while the kitchen staff put it out, all that was there was the empty pan. So our holiday meal was roast potatoes, green beans, dinner roll, and apple pie. We later learned that a maintenance worker had snuck in and taken all the meat as he was leaving to go home. He was fired and after that each holiday, someone from the kitchen staff was there to serve us the meal.
man why people gotta be like that😕
@@alexaclancy8019 I really do not know, but in the end, it cost him his job and I am sure it would be difficult to find another when the next employer finds he had been fired from a nursing home run by a religious order. I prefer to think that this was his attempt to provide a special holiday dinner for his family, do not know if this is true or not, but it is better to think that than to say the fellow was a greedy SOB and decided to pig out on free food for the next few days.
When I worked for Crete Carrier, after being out sick for 6 weeks, my boss called me one day to check on me. He informed me I needed hurry and get better as my work was piling up, and there was no one else to do it.
Ooh. "Not doing others' work is lazy and arrogant." Maybe once. Twice is exploitation.
And it reeks of bad management
My boss is like a diaper, he's always on my ass, and he's always full of shit.
Seeing stuff like this makes me so glad I am retired.
Indeed. If I were in the job market again, and some AH asked me the "What is your greatest weakness" question, I'd answer, "Only a complete idiot would disclose to a perfect stranger what their greatest weakness was, and I would hope that XXXX Company is not in the habit of hiring complete idiots." Sorry, but my uncorked sarcasm seems to find myriad outlets these days ...
At 5:30 - I worked at EDS in the late 80's early 90's: people got FIRED for discussing pay. That was the one taboo subject. Two EDS workers could discuss anything but paychecks. In case you are wondering, H Ross Perot, the guy that created EDS, was the ONLY corporate CEO that rescued his people, EDS employees, from Iran in 1979 when the Shah was ousted. All other companies looked to the US Gov't, which always moves slowly, so their people were held hostage. Perot did it himself, told Jimmy Carter just stay out of my way.
I once worked at clothing shop where we were requested to come 30 mins before opening to vacuum and clean and finish 30 mins after closing but not allowed to put this in our timesheet. It was women clothing company who had posters everywhere how they support women but it was the most shittiest environment where we not allowed to sit till your break even if store is empty.
Yo that's...EXTREMELY illegal 😳 We weren't even allowed to let off-the-clock employees bag groceries "cuz they're bored" at the grocery store I worked at. How awful, hope someone reported that clothing store
I'm retired so I've worked many years. I have seen both jerk bosses and jerk employees. Some bosses treat their employees like slaves. Some employees act like they run the place. I know someone whose company was short staffed and she wanted to take some vacation time just to go out & have fun. He really couldn't spare her and denied her request. She grabbed him by the collar and said, "What part of, 'I want the day off,' don't you understand." And she wondered why she got fired. I worked with a girl who was always calling in sick on Friday's and Monday's. I worked with a guy who was doing his own company's work while he was supposed to be working for another company. Some younger employees act like they know it all because they're younger. I've worked for bosses who treated me like I was an idiot and always took credit for my ideas. So jerks come in either side and either sex.
When I was 18 I went over the handlebars of a motorised scooter and fractured my arm. I called my boss at the bar I worked at and told him I wouldn't be able to work that night and maybe not for a few days. He told me in his day they used to do farm work with 2 broken arms. He was born into money, gifted the bar from his multi-millionaire dad and had never done any menial labour in his life.
On at least 2 occasions he also told other bar staff (7 out of 10 of which were my closest friends since school) that he was going to sack me, and then lied and said he hadn't when I confronted him about it.
6:40 Here's a thought, Boss Man/Lady ~ Close your business on THANKSGIVING DAY!!! Unless you're a hospital or the fire station, you can close 😉
I watched the video and read lots of the comments. All this illustrates why we need more unionization in America. There are two ways to make money in corporate America. (1) Charge as much as you can for the product or service you provide. (2) Pay as little as possible for the materials and labor that go into the product or service that you provide. Therefore, it is natural for corporations to want to keep workers ignorant and powerless and screw them out of wages and benefits every chance they get. America could learn a lot from European workers! (We also have a totally corrupt government thanks to Chief Justice John Roberts and "Citizens United.") Wealthy individuals and corporations are allowed to "donate" unlimited amounts of money to campaigns of political candidates of their choice. It's called "free speech." What this amounts to is that monied interests can pick and promote their own stooge candidates, get them elected and then totally control/write every law they pass. Guess who's getting screwed continuously? Workers! It's time for some very serious changes.
I once worked for a company that had us use travel letters for our expenses in the field. When we were finally issued credit cards, company executives got upset because those were reserved for their positions only.
7:57 - Wow. They're upset about the 50 cents that an employee costs them for charging their 📱. 50 cents for A YEAR'S worth of charging.
Slavery was outlawed in 1865 in the U.S. but I see some people never really got used to that.
We had a TERRIBLE boss at work. so the owner came down one night. Cleaned out bad bosses office put everything by the curb. Now we have a great boss.
And New Trucks. Not new "used" trucks.
My boss got mad at me because I hadn't taken my holiday leave.
🇦🇺
I was a good boss...excellent 401k, paid 100% for unused vaca over a certain amount and even 50% for unused sick. year end bonuses out of my own pocket. Still some employees acted like I still owed them something. Due to our business we were very busy during a particular summer day so had a moratorium on vacation at that time. This one gal who was always telling folks she was a Berkley grad begged to have the day off because she didnt have anyone to babysit her kids...found out she and her husband went on a Vegas trip. Another gal I allowed her to bring her handicapped teen to work and sit her in the break room because she was having behavioral issues. Then when I turned her down for advancement she went ballistic and complained to my superiors that I was abusive (they knew it was ridiculous). People can be jerks boss or employee.
You sound like a Sasquatch riding an unicorn towards an UFO…lol
This reminds me years ago when I was working at Orkin pest control, and the pay sucked morale was in the toilet, and so the new boss came in and put in a single serve Keurig coffee maker 😂and in her feeble little brain that was supposed to fix everything, she watched people quit around her sometimes two a day😂
Previous boss here. I had 25 employees. I gave all the my employees freedom from having the boss above their head watching them all the time. Three of them gave me a very bad time. One insulted me, yelled at me and became nearly violent. I learned that he had been influenced by an acquaintance who held a similar job elswhere. He was told he was exploited with a low pay. I told him that I knew he was illiterate and could not even write a tweet on his phone, I had compensated for many years for his inabilities because I had pity on him. The other two stole goods from my Inventory and paid time to run their sidelines. Every one had an automatic raise every year according to that years inflation rate and five days paid holidays on top of their vacation. I decided to sell my business and those three were kicked out by the new owner. (The illiterate one nearly busted a vein when he was told to fill out sales reports every week on his newly supplied computer.)
I’m certain that all of these stories are true and they all took place in America.
Nothing wrong with giving away the expired soda to anyone who wants it, better than it getting thrown out
That last one was painful. I'm a manager and I refuse to ask my guys to do anything I won't and if they're at the office I am too. First in last out.
You pull shit like this and you erode trust and get a toxic work environment, and you earn everything that happens next. Treat your employees like you want to be treated and train them to be leaders themselves and you get farther than pretending they're some sort of consumable product. Fuck these managers.
r/thathappened.
@@rustythecrown9317 Believe whatever you want. It is the internet after all.
Two of the worst bosses I ever had were former Army 2nd Lieutenants.
Some military are micromanagers I would just avoid them .....
@@rairai3517 Unfortunately, we couldn't do that.
What we did find as a workable defense though, was to do exactly as he said. Since he was so often wrong about what he wanted, if we did just exactly what he told us, it would blow up in his face.
His boss eventually figured it out and got rid of him.
Youd be surprised how much a little call to osha or food safety departments can absolutely ruin these businesses and in turn, the bosses lives.
The boss who made that last sign needs to be drug-tested immediately. Sad part is, I even did one of those when I took a pay to switch from contractor scum to full time minion.
My last job I was working in was a warehouse where we were pretty spaced out and we got grief for not coming in for being sick so I came in one day and I wasn’t feeling well. Coughing and sneezing. I told him later on that I wouldn’t be able to ride in the van to deliver something because it’s in a closed area and I didn’t want to get the other person sick. It was a Wednesday. I was so sick I had to take the next two days off and I rarely miss work. I came in the next Monday and he pulled me over and said that it was borderline insubordination. I told him if you hate that you’ll really hate what I’m about to say and I told him that that was my last day. He told me to leave and I did. I wasn’t trying to blind side him but that group did shady shit and now they’ve lost so many people one area is closed because they don’t have anyone that knows how to work it. I had enough and man did it feel good
That last sign...good God.
When I was in college, I worked at a pizza place in the kitchen. One night me and my roommate were cooking out and drinking beer when my boss Mark calls me from work. He asked if I could come in tonight due to the fact some of the cooks called off. I told him im about 8 beers into a 12 pack and cant drive to work, so he goes, "I will have one of the delivery drivers come get you". I said Im not going into work drunk so I can cut my fingers off or smash my hand in the dough roller. He seriously sat there on the phone waiting for me to say yes...come pick me up.
wow I thought it was just me...about the vacation days...every time I ask for one, I get grief about it...why do they give them to you then...
Where I am coz the law says so. Minimum 4 weeks taken a week at a time or any combination you want. Woe to any boss who tries to stop you from taking them.
Citing theft of electricity for charging a phone, and then somehow deducted from your pay? Is that even legal?!
Maybe, but it would be such a tiny number that it wouldn't be worth deducting.
no it isn't, but neither is setting fire to your place of work so it kind of balances out :)
It's utterly illegal.
2:21 my regional manager has said this same stupid shit before. The way I see it is everyone should pull their own weight. Not someone (me) doing more work than the other 2 guys in the warehouse. I'm pulling more than my own weight for my work. Case in point Friday they expect me to move the tanker on the pad to unload it once I'm done loading my dad's truck, yet that same tanker has to be turned around to position it on the pad to unload which can't be done because I'm not allowed to take the trucks on the road period, and the hoses won't reach under the trailer. Plus the guy that brought the truck back the day before won't stay long enough to even bother to move it, nor will they make him do it. Plus they've been telling me the same bull shit lie since November about them sending me to truck driving school. While I did want to get my Class A CDL back then that ship has sailed because they won't backup what they say. Oh and my dad's truck never got done being loaded until 6 pm and everyone else was gone...
Does this make anyone else wonder if the jerk bosses are behind the video, just trying to get people to lower their expectations? Now i want a video about awesome bosses to compete with this one and make all the lousy bosses worried about how good others can have it somewhere else!
Good one. For contrast: at one point, the company I used to work at was in rather dire times because of the 2007 crisis, all the bosses/co-owners choosed NOT to be paid for six months so all the employees would keep getting our full pay. Without making any fuss of it, too.
Your move, crappy boss behind the video. Try to make me lower my expectations now.
I work part time after school and at weekends, the couple I work for are awesome. The lady even makes nice meals for me and does my laundry. The man has taught me so much and is always helpful.......oops, no wait.
I work on our family farm with mum and dad......🤣🤣🤣 gotchya
@@sethc6663 joke is on you - family business DOES count as business
just watch one about work practices in the rest of the world and bingo better conditions
Ah the eternal struggle between managerial staff and regular people.
I have bever understood companies that refuse to tell you what they pay or what shift you would have, what experience you need, etc untill you go through all of the applications and interviews and physicals and drug tests.
I wasted half my life applying for jobs that paid way too little, or needed a qualification that i didnt have.
My last day was Thursday. Friday I would be boarding a plane to move over 12 hours drive away. Thursday boss tells me I’m on schedule for next week because of people out sick. No I’m not. I most certainly was, and it’s only 4:00, there’s overtime, what am I doing? I punch out-Sunday I will be in blank, forever. An offer to have my rear written up and more yelling about my attitude as someone from HR and bosses boss has shown-for my escort to exit interview. I was told by someone that on Sunday the explosion was epic as I changed numbers and I couldn’t get called to be gotten in for shifts after quitting.
I didn't know my boss had so many relatives.